Raúl Alberto Mora
Dr. Raúl Alberto Mora is known worldwide for his work in the areas of second languages, critical discourse analysis, and socio-cultural theory. In particular, he studies the applications of alternative literacy paradigms to analyze second-language literacy practices in urban and virtual spaces. He works to understand the use of languages a social and semiotic resource. His work has been published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Social Semiotics, Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, Pedagogies: An International Journal, and other journals. Dr. Mora serves as an editorial review board member for Journal of Literacy Research, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Journal of Education, Language, and Ideology, Journal of Education for Multilingualism, How Journal (Colombia), and Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies (Poland). He also co-edited The Handbook of Critical Literacies and Translanguaging and Multimodality as Flow, Agency, and a New Sense of Advocacy in and From the Global South (Routledge, 2024), as well as the forthcoming books Understanding Second Language Users as Gamers: Language-as-Victory, Reimagining Literacy in the Age of AI: Theory and Practice, English Language Teacher Education in Latin America, and Reimagining Critical Multimodality in Education: From Soil to Seedlings. Dr. Raúl Alberto Mora is a researcher at the Pedagogies and Didactics of Knowledge research group and chairs the award-winning Literacies in Second Languages Project (LSLP) research lab. He has served as visiting professor, visiting scholar, and guest lecturer at universities in Colombia, Poland, Mexico, Czechia, Brazil, the United States, Spain, and Norway. Raúl is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Research Professor at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia.
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LSLP Micro-Papers: https://www.lslp.org/lslpmicropapers.html
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To cite this episode: Persohn, L. (Host). (2025, Apr. 8). A conversation with Raúl Alberto Mora. (Season 5, No. 9) [Audio podcast episode]. In Classroom Caffeine Podcast series. https://www.classroomcaffeine.com/guests. DOI: 10.5240/5F18-937B-6123-EF39-5B84-E