ADRIENNE LO
Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology

226 Education, MC-708
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-3327
adrienlo@uiuc.edu

Adrienne Lo (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles, 2006) specializes in Linguistic anthropology, language socialization, discourse analysis, morality, narrative, Korean Americans, and heritage language learning. Her research in linguistic anthropology explores how Korean American children who attended classes at community-based educational organizations in a multiethnic community in California were socialized to culturally specific frameworks of language, morality, and emotion. Using discourse analysis of classroom interactions, she examines how second-generation students were positioned as moral subjects through narratives, codeswitching, evidential frameworks, and epistemic particles. She also looks at how Korean American children are positioned at the intersection of different cultural ideologies about the kinds of speech acts (known as assessments or evaluations) that are good/bad for children to hear and to make. A collection of linguistic anthropological studies of Asian Pacific Americans that she co-edited with Angela Reyes of Hunter College will be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

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