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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State Assistant Professor Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso has earned a Promising Scholar Award from the North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association, or NASFLA, for her excellence in the field of linguistics.

Cardozo-Gaibisso鈥檚 award comes with an invitation to speak at an upcoming association webinar, an opportunity to publish an article in the organization鈥檚 top journal 鈥淢eaning Potential,鈥� and $200 in her choice of Routledge books. Founded in 2002 to foster research in systemic functional linguistics and to provide an organizational focus for linguists in teaching and research positions throughout North America, NASFLA presents one Promising Scholar Award annually to a pre-tenure scholar who has made outstanding contributions in applied linguistics.

鈥淣ASFLA is a very supportive organization in which, as junior scholars, we find support and mentorship from those leading our field,鈥� Cardozo-Gaibisso said. 鈥淭his award means a lot to me academically and professionally and inspires me to continue developing my work as a systemic functional linguist.鈥�

Cardozo-Gaibisso earned her Ph.D. in language and literacy education from the University of Georgia in 2018, her master鈥檚 degree in education with an emphasis on research in teaching and learning processes from Universidad ORT Uruguay in 2013, and her bachelor鈥檚 degree in English language teaching from Instituto de Profesores Artigas, also in Uruguay, in 2010.

Cardozo-Gaibisso served from 2018-2019 as an education consultant for World Bank鈥檚 Regional Program for the Development of the Teacher Profession in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2020, she was the curriculum development specialist in teacher policy for the International Institute for Educational Planning, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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