Language and Literacy Academics

Explore our academics in Language and Literacy and their areas of research expertise

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Soroush Sabbaghan - Specialization Chair

  • Artificial Intelligence and Pedagogy
  • Mathematics Education
  • Teacher Education
  • Bilingual/second language education
  • Applied Linguistics

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Alexandra Berry

Alexandra Berry

  • Early childhood education 
  • Anti-colonial, place-based education 
  • Research-creation  
  • Artistic languages 
  • Post-developmental pedagogies 

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Subrata Bhowmik

Subrata Bhowmik

  • Sociocultural approaches to L2 education
  • ESL writing in K-12 contexts
  • Language and culture
  • Second language education
  • Applied linguistics

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Umit Boz

Umit Boz

  • Second language teaching and learning
  • Conversation and discourse analysis
  • Intercultural communication
  • Sociolinguistics
  • English for academic purposes (EAP) curriculum design

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Roswita Dressler

  • Bilingual/second language education
  • Second language teaching and learning
  • Teacher education

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Yan Guo

Yan Guo

  • Second language acquisition (SLA)
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Language and culture
  • Identity development
  • Diversity

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Kim Lenters

Kim Lenters

  • Literacy
  • Integrating technology in education
  • Elementary education
  • Case study research
  • Community studies

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Sandra Manyfeathers

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Katherine Mueller

Katherine Mueller

  • French immersion schools
  • Pedagogy
  • Practicum
  • Second language acquisition (SLA)
  • Second language teaching and learning

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Sylvie Roy

Sylvie Roy

  • Bilingual/second language education
  • French immersion schools
  • Second language teaching and learning
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Discourse analysis

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Anuradha Sengupta

  • English as a foreign language (EFL)
  • English for academic purposes (EAP) curriculum design
  • English for academic purposes (EAP) teaching
  • Heritage language instruction
  • Pedagogical approaches in ESL/EAP teaching and learning environments

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Erin Spring

Erin Spring

  • Case study research
  • Children's literature
  • Conversation and discourse analysis
  • Cultural studies
  • Diversity

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Dennis Sumara

Dennis Sumara

  • Curriculum theory and design
  • Literacy
  • Reading and writing
  • Pedagogy
  • Teacher education

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Gregory Tweedie

Gregory Tweedie

  • Dialects in education
  • Dialects in language planning
  • World Englishes
  • English as a Lingua franca in health care

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Rahat Zaidi

Rahat Zaidi

  • Bilingual/second language education
  • Language and culture
  • Second language teaching and learning
  • Multilingual literacy interventions
  • Peace education

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