Xenia Ribaya Emperador-Garnace, Ph.D. is
an English Language Lecturer at the College of Local Administration, Khon Kaen
University. She completed all her degrees in Saint Louis
University, Baguio City, Philippines namely: AB Communication, MA in Language
Education (Cum Laude), and Doctor of Philosophy in Language Education (Magna
Cum Laude).
Her research interests include topics on English as Second
Language, English as Foreign Language, Multicultural Communication, and
Language Assessment, among others. Her research centering on Korean English
language learners has been presented in an international conference in Thailand
in 2013, and was published in Germany in 2015. In 2017, she was awarded
the Best Presenter in an international research conference held in Malaysia,
where she presented her study on Augmentative and Alternative
Communication. The following year, the same study was published in an
international journal. Her research titled Speaking Assessments in
Multilingual English Language Teaching was also published last May 2021 in
Asian EFL Journal, a SCOPUS-Indexed journal.
She is a licensed professional teacher, research reviewer and editor,
and a seasoned speaker on language and communication topics. For more than
twelve years, she taught several Communication and basic and professional
English courses to undergraduate, graduate, and Chinese learners in the
University of Baguio, Philippines. In February 2023, she was an exchange
teacher in KKU-COLA, Thailand.
Prior
to her stint in the academe, she served as a broadcast reporter and online news
correspondent for ABS-CBN. One of her notable achievements as a journalist
include her nomination as Best Reporter in the 2007 KBP Golden Dove Awards for
her story on the Julia Campbell Murder Case.
