| Body |  5-Question Profile for Christopher Daradics, Language Technician for CASLS.
1. What is your role at CASLS? What types of projects do you usually work on?
I'm a Research Associate at CASLS and focus most of my energy on curriculum design. Ideally, my work brings together contemporary theories of language (in the broadest sense) with conscientious experience design and pedagogical best practices. As far as the projects I usually work on, most of my assignments have to do with coordinating and/or improving an aspect of the design process.
2. What are your areas of interest/expertise?
My main academic interests have to do with the connection between language use and learners' perception of and participation in the world. I'm interested in understanding and working with the natural ecology of language to support personal formation, self-construction, and metacognition—especially through second language development. My core concerns have to do with the quality of people's conscious experience and the development of higher quality consciousness through the cultivation of curiosity and mindful attention.
3. What do you like best about working at the University of Oregon and living in Eugene?
Working at CASLS is pretty much a dream come true. The university context is satisfying on a number of levels, and my colleagues are brilliant and tons of fun to be in the trenches with. So, I guess what I like best about working at UO is that I get to do the stimulating and rewarding work we do at CASLS with such tremendously supportive and bright colleagues. And about living in Eugene, well, I guess I like that it feels like home—rain and all.
4. If you could have any super power, what would it be and why?
My super power would be to have a supernatural capacity for empathy, because I think being able to understand, appreciate, and accept others' experience is the key to creating a better world.
5. What are your favorite quotes?
"When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's probe. You wield it, and it digs a path you follow." -Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
"Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love." -Billy Collins, Marginalia
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