Ashley R. Moore

Ashley R. Moore is a critical applied linguist and an Assistant Professor in the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program in the Language & Literacy Education Department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research program has two main strands: the first pursues the realization of queer-inclusive and -affirming language education, and the second introduces and explores the concept of linguistic dissociation, which he defines as a psychosocial process through which an individual or group distances themselves from certain linguistic resources within their existing repertoires because those resources have come to connote intersubjective disharmony. He is passionate about enacting equitable and socially just change across the institutions, organizations, and fields in which he is embedded.

In his doctoral research, he developed the concept of linguistic dissociation and examined the causes of first language dissociation sometimes observed in Japanese-English late plurilinguals. Before studying in Canada, he lived for ten years in Japan, teaching English for general and academic purposes at a number of universities and leading the establishment of a self-access learning center. He has co-facilitated antiracist caucuses at the University of British Columbia and serves as co-chair of the American Association for Applied Linguistics’ (AAAL) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Task Force (2022–2023). His work has been published in Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, and ELT Journal.

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