Peggy Semingson

Peggy Semingson is an associate professor of TESOL in the Department of Linguistics and TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington where she teaches courses in TESOL. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Language and Literacy Studies from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. She has an in-depth background in digitally focused lesson design.

Her research interests include digital pedagogies, media-based learning, online learning, and online literacy teacher education. Her Ph.D. is in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Language and Literacy Studies from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Research interests include digital pedagogies, media-based learning, online learning, and remote/virtual ESL teaching and learning. Current research studies examine the ways that we can use digital and innovative pedagogies to engage teachers to most effectively help them to teach in their current and future classroom contexts. Within this area, she is more specifically interested in socially distributed knowledge sharing that takes place online, distributed cognition, and video-mediated (e.g., YouTube) discussion and dialogue. Her education-focused YouTube channel has over two million views and over 5,000 subscribers.

She has won two awards related to distance learning including the 2013 USDLA Best Practices Platinum Award for Excellence in Distance Learning Teaching. In 2013 Dr. Semingson was the recipient of the prestigious UT System Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award. She won the International Literacy Association (ILA) 2017 Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award and the 2019 UTA President’s Award for Transformative Online Education.