Maria Perpetua Socorro U. Liwanag, Ph.D. |
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Maria Perpetua Socorro U. Liwanag has teaching experiences with biliterate and diverse learners in elementary and middle school, secondary, college, university undergraduate and graduate students, teachers and administrators. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in August 2006. She currently has sixteen years of teaching experience both in the Philippines and the United States. Dr. Liwanag's research interests includes studies of readers and the reading process through miscue analysis, retrospective miscue analysis (RMA), emotional responses in reading, eye movement and miscue analysis (EMMA), adolescent and adult literacy, English for second language learners, literacy assessments, and literacy and social studies content area research. She has presented in national and international conferences and is currently working on research regarding emotions in reading, relationship of appraisal theory with the sociopsycholinguistic view of reading, and research on the use of EMMA. |