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Jayson Parba, PhD

Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator
Office: Spalding 459
Telephone: (808) 728-9402
E-mail: jaysonpa@hawaii.edu


(UH Manoa)
(CU)

With a rich experience of teaching English and Filipino as a second/heritage language to international and Filipino students in the Philippines and the US, Jayson has a wide range of research interests that reflect his commitment to social justice, multilingualism, and diversity. His research areas include critical language teaching, Filipino heritage/L2 teaching, language policy, and translanguaging. Building on critical applied linguistics and critical perspectives, his research focuses on the interaction between language teaching and factors like race, gender, ethnicity, and class in various contexts (e.g., the Philippines, Hawaiʻi, and Japan). In particular, he is interested in critically examining how language use and language teaching can challenge or sustain social inequalities, status quo discourses, and linguistic and cultural discrimination. He has collaborated on a number of research with scholars from the US, the UK, Japan, and the Philippines.

Prior to his position at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Jayson taught multilingual and multicultural students in the Philippines for eight years. At an international school, he taught English language arts to high school students from Japan, South Korea, the UK, the US, and the Philippines. At the university level, he was involved in an English teacher education program and also taught ELT pedagogy, literature, academic writing, and sociolinguistics courses. Moreover, Jayson also writes fiction in Cebuano and was a fellow to several creative writing workshops in the Philippines. In AY 2011-2012, he joined UHMFIL as a visiting scholar under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship Program.

Jayson also has significant experience gained through teaching Filipino in an intensive language program designed for undergraduate and graduate students at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI 2021), University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is a multilingual educator and researcher who speaks English, (Tagalog-based) Filipino, and Cebuano--his first language--fluently.

DEGREE
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Second Language Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
RESEARCH INTERESTS and SPECIALIZATION
  • critical language pedagogy, world/second language teaching, unequal Englishes
  • sociolinguistics/Philippine sociolinguistics
  • multilingualism, translanguaging/translingualism, language ideologies
  • critical discourse analysis, critical teacher/action research, ethnography
COURSES TAUGHT
  • IP 394 - Philippine Sociolinguistics: Language Use, Ideologies, & Identities
  • IP 370 - Philippine Travelogue: Peoples, Places, & Practices
  • IP 360 - Filipino Food, Music & Rituals
  • IP 368B - Introduction to SEA Films: Filipino
  • IP 364 - Philippine Pop Culture
  • Fil 301 & 302 - Third Level/Upper Intermediate Filipino I & II
  • Fil 401 & 402 - Fourth Level/Advanced Filipino I & II
  • Intermediate Filipino (SEASSI 2021)
  • Advanced Filipino (SEASSI 2021)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Translanguaging for social justice in Thailand’s language classrooms: A classroom ethnography.
International Journal of Multilingualism.
Community-based language education and translanguaging. In L. Wei, P. Phyak, J. Lee, & O. Garcia (Eds.).
The handbook of translanguaging. Wiley-Blackwell.
Reimagining EMI through multi-/translingual access: A decolonial pedagogical perspective of Philippine ELT.
In R.A. Giri, A. Padwad, & M.M.N. Kabir (Eds.), Equity, social justice, and English medium instruction. Springer.
Unequal Englishes in multimodal texts: Visibilizing opaque power relations through critical discourse analysis.
In R. Tupas (Ed.), Investigating unequal Englishes. Taylor & Francis / Routledge.
Diversification, desire, and hierarchization of unequal Englishes on online eikaiwa.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
(Il)Legitimating Filipino teachers' English on webpages for Japanese learners of English.
TESOL Quarterly.

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Edited Book

Parba, J. (under review). Sustaining Filipino in the diaspora: Perspectives on language pedagogy, identity, and practice. Multilingual Matters.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Thongwichit, N., Ulla, M., & Parba, J. (2025). Translanguaging for social justice in Thailand’s language classrooms: A classroom ethnography. International Journal of Multilingualism.

Parba, J. & Fernandez-Dalona, I. (2024). Investigating teachers’ (mis)understanding of translingualism: Hopes for a multi-/translingual Philippine ELT. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics & TEFL.

Morikawa, T., & Parba, J. (2024). Diversification, desire, and hierarchization of unequal Englishes on online eikaiwa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.

Morikawa, T., & Parba, J. (2023). (Il)legitimating Filipino teachers’ English on webpages for Japanese learners of English. TESOL Quarterly.

Parba, J. & Fernandez-Dalona, I. (2022). Disrupting English hegemony and promoting critical language pedagogy in the Philippines. The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL.

Parba, J. (2021). Teaching critical vocabulary to Filipino heritage language learners. Special Issue on Critical Language Pedagogy (Edited by Graham Crookes). Education Sciences, 11(6), 260.

Cannizzo, H., Crookes, G. V., Farias, P., Häusler, A., Leal, P., Parba, J., da Silva, L., Siqueira, S., West, G., & Ziegler, N. (2021). Final Thoughts: Concluding the Special Issue. Education Sciences, 11, 764.

Cirocki, A., Parba, J., Caparoso, J., & Kaday, K. (2019). Metacognitive reading strategies in the Filipino ESL classroom: Use and Instruction. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 28, 29–60.

Parba, J. (2018). Teachers’ shifting language ideologies and teaching practices in MTB-MLE Philippine classrooms. Linguistics and Education, 4, 27–35.

Mendoza, A., & Parba, J. (2018). Thwarted: Relinquishing educator beliefs to understand translanguaging from learners’ point of view. International Journal of Multilingualism.

BOOK CHAPTERS (major publishers; peer reviewed)

Chung, J., Otcu-Grillman, B., & Parba, J. (forthcoming, December 2025). Community-based language education and translanguaging. In L. Wei, P. Phyak, J. Lee, & O. Garcia (Eds.), The handbook of translanguaging. Wiley-Blackwell.

Parba, J. (2025). Reimagining EMI through multi-/translingual access: A decolonial pedagogical perspective of Philippine ELT. In R. A. Giri, A. Padwad, & M. M. N. Kabir (Eds.), Equity, social justice, and English medium instruction. Springer, Singapore.

Parba, J. (2024). Translanguaging as transformative pedagogy: Vignettes from the Filipino language classrooms in Hawaiʻi. In A. Welp & R. Maciel (Eds.), Transformative practices in translanguaging classrooms. Brazil: Editora Zouk.

Parba, J. & Morikawa, T. (2024). Unequal Englishes in multimodal texts: Visibilizing opaque power relations through critical discourse analysis. In R. Tupas (Ed.), Investigating unequal Englishes: Springer

Parba, J. (2023). Foregrounding the ordinariness of translanguaging: Towards equitable multilingualism for all. In M. L. E. Canilao & R. De Los Reyes (Eds.), Translanguaging for empowerment and equity: Language practices in Philippine education and other public spaces. Springer.

Parba, J. & Morikawa, T. (2022). “Fun Place and Hospitable People”: (Post)Colonial gaze towards the Philippines on webpages for Japanese learners of English. In B. Sharma & S. Gao (Eds.), Intercultural communication in tourism: Critical perspectives. Routledge.

Parba, J. & Crookes, G. (2019). A Filipino second language classroom: Negotiating power relations and the role of English in a critical LOTE/world language classroom in Hawaiʻi. In M. Lopez-Gopar & W. Sughrua (Eds.), International perspectives on critical pedagogies in ELT (pp. 59–78). Palgrave Publishers Ltd.

Open Educational Resources (OER) Textbooks

Parba, J., Gonzaga, I., & Ranjan, R. (forthcoming, 2025). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Michigan State University Libraries.

Gonzaga, I., Parba, J., & Ranjan, R. Intermediate Filipino. (in preparation). Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Michigan State University Libraries.

On-going Scholarly Projects
  • Parba, J. (forthcoming, 2025). From Tagalog to Filipino: Program Development, Curricular Innovations, and Community Advocacy in Hawaiʻi. In J. L. Perillo & P. Halagao (Eds.), The CPS 50th year Anthology.
  • Bonifacio, R. & Parba, J. (under review). Translanguaging as “normal” and the (re)configuration of husey in the Manobo indigenous community.
  • Parba, J. (under review). Exploring race/-ism through critical dialogue: Towards engaging in anti-racist Filipino language pedagogy.
  • Parba, J. (under review). Filipino as a lingua franca: Reimagining language, identity, and pedagogy in the diaspora.
  • Parba, J., Orsal, L. A., & Gonzaga, I. (under review). Navigating the ambivalences and contradictions of teaching Filipino: A critical perspective.
  • Parba, J. (with Morikawa, under review). Resisting native speakerism and neoliberal ideologies in transnational English programs: ELF and decolonial possibilities for Philippine English. In S. Siqueira, L. Porfirio, & K. da Silva (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca in Global Souths.
  • Parba, J. (with Morikawa, in preparation). Having policed each other, but…: Against native-speakerism through a duo-autoethnography of two English language transgressors.
  • Parba, J. (in preparation). Disinventing Filipino in the heritage language context: Remapping the boundaries of Filipino language and culture curriculum in the diaspora.
Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation

Parba, J. (2018). Empowering the Filipino language classroom: Towards critical pedagogy and curriculum (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Published Literary Works (Fiction) in Cebuano and English

*being used as a required reading for Philippine Contemporary Literature in Philippine high schools

Parba, J. (2021). Pinikas (Cut in Half). In A. Yandug, M. E. Paulma, & L. Cotejar (Eds.), Tinubdan: New Voices from Northern Mindanao. Xavier University Press, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines.

Parba, J. (2016). Danguyngoy sa Suba (Wails of the River). In J. Cruz, J. Bengan, D. Cimafranca, & D. Pagusara (Eds.), The Best of Dagmay 2: An anthology of the best poems, short plays, and short stories in Dagmay from 2010 to 2012. Ateneo de Davao University Publications Office & National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Parba, J. (2010). Uncle Gaspar takes a wife. Dagmay.Online: Literary Journal of the Davao Writers Guild.

Parba, J. (2010). A private family affair. Dagmay.Online: Literary Journal of the Davao Writers Guild.

PEER-REVIEWED PAPER PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES

Parba, J. (Organizer and presenter, March 2023). Raciolinguistic encounters of Filipino heritage students in Hawaii. Association for Asian Studies 2023 Conference, Hynes Convention Center, Boston.

Parba, J. (July 2022). Exploring Race/ism in the Filipino Heritage Language Classroom: Rethinking HL Education through Critical Pedagogical Perspectives. The 38th COTSEAL (Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages) Virtual Conference.

Parba, J. (April 21, 2022). (De)Coloniality in MTB-MLE: The Politics of Standardizing Languages in Multilingual Philippines. In the panel "Indigenous Education and Mother-Tongue Based Multilingual Education" at the International Conference on Philosophy and Education organized by Far Eastern University Institute of Education and De La Salle University Department of Philosophy.

Leal, P., Parba, J. & West, G. (November 2021). Challenges and Promises of Critical Language Teaching: Kwentuhan as a form praxis. Freire and Vygotsky International Congress: Emancipatory Public Education.

Parba, J. & Morikawa, T. (March 2021). Fun and Hospitable: Touristic Construction of the Philippines on Webpages for Japanese Learners of English, at the 2021 American Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Virtual Conference.

Parba, J. (February 2021). Everyday multilingualism as grassroots multilingualism. In the panel on “Everyday Multilingualism in the Philippines” convened by I. P. Martin during The International Mother Language Conference and Festival organized by The 170+ Talaytayan MLE Inc.

Parba, J. (March 2020). Creating Spaces for Critical Dialogue: Teachers and Students as Fellow Inquirers in the Heritage Language Classroom at the 2020 Conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics. Denver, Colorado. Note: Canceled due to COVID-19.

Parba, J. (March 2020). Featured Speaker: Entry Points for Teaching Critical Literacy in the ESL Classroom: A Reflection from an L2 Teacher at the Hawaii International Conference on Language and Literature Studies. Ӱҵ at Hilo.

Parba, J. (March 2019). Language Ideologies and Discourses of Philippine ELT on Webpages for Japanese EFL Learners at the 2019 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Parba, J. (October 2018). Reframing the Filipino Language and Culture Curriculum through Critical Pedagogy (Panel Organizer and Presenter) at the 2018 Pamantasan Conference: #BeKindToAStudent, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa.

Parba, J. (February 2018). Translanguaging in a Multilingual Filipino Heritage Classroom: Language Practices as Teaching and Learning Resources at the 10th International Conference on Language Teacher Education, University of California Los Angeles.

Parba, J. (June 2016). Translanguaging as the Norm in Philippine Classrooms: Pedagogical Implications for L2 Classrooms at the International Conference on Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, and Literature, University of Mindanao, Davao City, Philippines.

Parba, J. (April 2016). Language ideologies and flexible multilingualism in Philippine classrooms at the 2016 Conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics, Orlando Florida, USA.

Parba, J. (November 2018). "Kay mga Bisaya man Ta": Countering Linguistic Violence by Engaging Multilingual Filipino Teachers at 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, at Colorado Convention Center, Colorado, USA.

Parba, J. (co-presented with Dr Pia Arboleda). Filipino Program Assessment Project. The 2015 Assessment for Curricular Improvement Poster Exhibit (organized by UHM Assessment Office, April 17, 2015, Campus Center Ballroom, UHM)

Parba, J. (June 2015). "I wanted to fit in": A Young Filipino Immigrant's Story of Transitioning and Positioning in his New Communities, The 2015 Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centering and (de)stabilization, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Parba, J. (March 2015). "'Nganong magbinisaya man?': Language Ideologies and the Mother Tongue in Philippine classrooms" Brown Bag Series, Department of Second Language Studies, UHM.

Parba, J. (February 2015). Students' Perceptions towards Oral Corrective Feedback in Filipino Heritage Language Classrooms, 14th East-West Center International Graduate Students Conference, Imin Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i.

Parba, J. (June 2012). Social Ills in the Short Stories of Filipino National Artist F. Sionil Jose during The 22nd International Conference on Literature: The Role of Literature in Enhancing the Nation and Humanity, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Parba, J. (April 28, 2022). (En)Countering the Challenges of Academic and Research Publications: A Dialogue among Teacher-Researchers. Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan.

Parba, J. (April 20, 2022). Southeast Asian Language Workshop: (Tagalog-based) Filipino. Organized by the Carolina Asia Center at The North Carolina University.

Parba, J. (April 5, 2022). Understanding the translingual movement: Towards equitable practices in Philippine ELT. International Lecture Series, Bukidnon State University.

Mendoza, A., & Parba, J. (December 2, 2021). What is “postmethod” language teaching and why has it been so influential? (This is an invited presentation. Maria Carreira, a leading scholar in heritage language (HL) education, organized this open event to exchange ideas with other HL teachers on the topic of postmethod. More details are found here: https://www.hlxchange.com/special-events.html)

Parba, J. (May 6, 2021). Tayo na: Let’s learn Filipino together. Presented during the Hawaii TESOL Language Experience.

Parba, J. (Jan 30, 2021). Reframing the Filipino Heritage/World Language Curriculum from a Critical Perspective. Presented via zoom to the faculty members and graduate students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Parba, J. (Keynote Speaker, January 28, 2021). Valuing and Legitimating Teacher Expertise in Public Education. Presented via zoom during the “Division Instructional Materials Virtual Congress”, Schools Division of Cagayan de Oro, Region 10, Philippines.

Parba, J. (January 22, 2021). Incorporating Critical Perspectives in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Classroom. Presented via zoom to the Faculty members of Foreign Language Studies, Kanazawa University, Japan.

Parba, J. (Speaker, July 23, 2020). Employing Critical Thinking Strategies for Teaching Flexible Learning, a webinar organized by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education Regional Office 10 for the “Retooling for Flexible Learning and Teaching Strategies of Region 10 Higher Education Institution Faculty,” presented via Zoom and livestreamed on FaceBook.

Parba, J. (July 14, 2017). Task-Based Language Teaching, Cagayan de Oro College-PHINMA, Philippines.

Parba, J. (July 12, 2017). Doing Qualitative Research in Education Seminar Workshop, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines.

Parba, J. (July 26, 2016). Understanding the Promises and Challenges of MTB-MLE - School of Education, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (also presented at the College of Education, PHINMA Cagayan de Oro College, Philippines).

Parba, J. (July & Aug 2016). (En)Countering the Challenges of Conceptual and Theoretical Framing in Writing for Publications - Graduate Studies, School of Education - Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines (also presented at Capitol University, July 11 and August 5, 2016).

Parba, J. (July 22, 2016). Using Authentic Materials in ESL Classrooms during the seminar on "Revamping American English Language Pedagogy to meet ESL Learners’ Needs" - Central Mindanao University, Philippines.

Parba, J. (August 1, 2015). Retooling Scheme and Capacity Building on Research, Division of Camiguin - Department of Education, Camiguin, Philippines.

Parba, J. (July 15, 2015). Multilingualism from a Critical Perspective: Engaging Pre-service Teachers in Ideological Dialogues, College of Education, Capitol University, Philippines.

CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS

Fellow for Fiction, 12th Iyas National Creative Writing Workshop, April 26-30, 2011, La Salle University in Bacolod City, Philippines

Fellow for Fiction, 17th Iligan National Writers Workshop, May 24-28, 2010, MSU-IIT, Iligan City, Philippines

Fellow for Fiction, 2nd Davao Writers Workshop 2010, May 3-7, 2010, Matina, Davao City, Philippines

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