James Coda is an assistant professor of world language education in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

His scholarship encompasses three interconnected areas: teacher identity and pedagogical practice, teacher professional development, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) in language educators’ practice. Across these areas, he examines how language educators’ identities, lived experiences, professional learning, and teaching contexts intersect with their curricular decisions and pedagogical practices. More recently, his research has examined how purposeful professional learning experiences may influence educators’ understandings of themselves, their students, and their teaching. His emerging research on generative AI extends this inquiry by examining how language educators and teacher candidates understand and navigate generative AI and how professional learning and teacher preparation inform their ethical and pedagogical uses of these technologies.

Link to page: https://cehhs.utk.edu/tpte/people/james-coda/