Language and Literacy Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Language & Literacy Education
The Department of Language and Literacy Education is a community of educators committed to social justice in scholarship, teaching, and service. We are interested in the many ways that humans make meaning through language and other symbolic resources. In our courses and our research, we see language and literacy as activities that make consensus possible, but that may also lead to inequity and injustice. In addition, conscious of ever-changing technologies for knowledge mobilization and the need for multiple and malleable literacies, we study and teach communication as a multimodal activity.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Ahmed, Anwar | Languages and literature |
| Belliveau, George | Art education, drama education, pedagogy, teacher research |
| Bryson, Mary | technology, media, cultural studies, gender, queer theory, deviance studies, post-colonial pedagogies, Sociology, Women's Studies, Education, media and gender, media and education |
| Corella Morales, Meghan | Other languages and literature; Academic Discourse; Children and youth; Discourse Analysis; Language ideology; Sociolinguistics |
| Darvin, Ron | development of diverse digital practices for learners of unequal resources |
| Dobson, Teresa | Media and communications; Literary Education; Digital Literacy; Digital Humanities; Text Visualization |
| Duff, Patricia | applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of languages in education, Adolescent issues, adult education issues, English and French as second languages, international perspecives |
| Early, Margaret | Adolescent issues, English as a second Language, language education, literacy, teacher research |
| Galla, Candace | what types of technology initiatives (low-, mid-, or high) Indigenous language communities are using to revitalize, maintain, and promote their language |
| Gladwin, Derek | Other languages and literature; Cultural Studies; Digital & Media Literacy; Environmental & Energy Literacy; Environmental Humanities; Food Literacy; Literary Education; Sustainability Education; Writing & Rhetoric |
| Gunderson, Lee Paul | Languages and literature; reading-research; immigrant-achievement; home literacy environment |
| Hare, Jan | Aboriginal youth mobility, Aboriginal family and community perspectives on early literacy, literature, identity construction and urban Aboriginal youth, Cultural studies, early childhood, first nations education |
| Jenson, Jennifer | Other languages and literature; Digital Cultures and Education; Digital Games; Game-based Learning; Gender; Online Learning; technology; Technology Implementation and integration |
| Kendrick, Maureen | literacy, digital literacy, Children and youth, ESL, international perspectives |
| Kubota, Ryuko | Specialized studies in education; critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching |
| Kumpulainen, Kristiina | Languages and literature; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Digital Literacies; identity; Multiliteracy and multimodality; Place-based literacies; Storytelling/narrative inquiry |
| Li, Guofang | longitudinal studies of immigrant children |
| Norton, Bonny | education, ESL, international perspectives, literacy, teacher research |
| Rajagopal, Harini | Multiliteracy and multimodality; Bilingual/Multilingual education; Decolonizing pedagogies and knowledges |
| Rogers, Theresa | Children's literatures; Other languages and literature; Children's and Adolescent Literature; Digital Literacies; Education; Educational Approaches; Literacy; Youth Studies |
| Talmy, Steven | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; teacher education |
| Wernicke, Meike | Specialized studies in education; Intercultural Education; Language Planning and Policy; Multi-/Plurilingualism; Second Language Education (French); teacher education |
| Zappa, Sandra | academic discourse socialization of (international) English language learners in higher education, examining the literacy socialization trajectories and the role their individual networks of practice (INoPs, a concept I coined) in becoming aware of the host culture values and expectations; projects examining the intercultural competence development of foreign language teachers studying abroad; foreign language-learning through peer exchange programs; academic English coaching for university-level English language learners; collaboration between language and subject specialists; and student perceptions of academic English language development in CBI courses. |
