Dr. Priscila J.B.M. Costa (Ph.D.) is a Multilingual Learner Program Specialist at a dual-language immersion elementary school in South Carolina. She has 19 years of teaching experience in K-5, higher education, and teacher education contexts in the U.S. and abroad. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy and a master’s degree in English: Teaching English for Specific Purposes. Her scholarship centers on issues of multilingual education, multimodal digital literacy practices, academic English writing, and equity-oriented instructional design. Her work bridges theory and practice, with particular attention to scaffolding and linguistically sustaining pedagogy for multilingual learners.
contact: dr.pmcosta@gmail.com