Amy C. Peria is a lecturer at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and Kapi‘olani Community College, where she teaches Tagalog-based Filipino as both a heritage and second language to beginning and intermediate learners. She earned her M.A. in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where her research focused on Filipino language placement tests and the assessment of second and heritage language learners’ writing. Her academic interests include language assessment, heritage language teaching and learning, and second language writing and reading. Growing up multilingual inspired her passion for language and teaching. In addition to Filipino, she is fluent in Pangasinan and has some knowledge of Ilokano. She also holds a B.A. in Filipino Language and Literature and Political Science from UH Mānoa.
