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  • Visiting Scholar Talk: Ethics and Researching Young Children’s Digital Lives and Learning

    Event Details This event is sponsored by the 2025 Faculty of Education International Research Visiting Fellowship (IRVF). Speaker: Dr. Rosie Flewitt, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDate: Monday, September 29, 2025Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PMLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012), Ponderosa Commons North Abstract Ethics and Researching Young Children’s Digital Lives and Learning This talk examines assumptions in humanist research ethics […] Read More

  • Visiting Scholar Talk: Toddlers, Tech and Talk: 0-3-year-old children’s language and literacy learning at home in a post-digital age

    Event Details This event is sponsored by the 2025 Faculty of Education International Research Visiting Fellowship (IRVF). Speaker: Dr. Rosie Flewitt, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityDate: Wednesday, October 1, 2025Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PMLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) and Online via Zoom (RSVP to receive Zoom link) Abstract Toddlers, Tech and Talk: 0-3-year-old children’s language and literacy learning at […] Read More

  • Scholarship Stories: Dr. Patsy Duff

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  • Online MEd in Literacy Education 2026

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  • Congratulations to Serikbolsyn Tastanbek

    Congratulations to Serikbolsyn Tastanbek, PhD candidate in LLED, on receiving the 2024 Larry Vandergrift Award for Best Graduate Paper. His winning article is featured in the latest issue of the Canadian Modern Language Review: Tastanbek, S. (2025). “Противоречат, да, мои слова?!” Translingual TESOL Teacher Educators’ Conflicting Translanguaging Beliefs. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 81 (3), 141-166. […] Read More

  • Research Seminar: What are the affordances and constraints of doing ethnography for language and literacy education research?

    Event Details Speakers: Drs. Maureen Kendrick, Melanie Wong, and Kristiina KumpulainenDate: Thursday, September 25Time: 3:00 – 4:30 PMLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012), Ponderosa Commons North Theme:What are the affordances and constraints of doing ethnography for language and literacy education research? Abstracts Multimodal Approaches to Ethnographic ResearchMaureen Kendrick This presentation explores how multimodal ethnography can offer new insights into […] Read More

We are a collective of educators committed to social justice in our work with students, colleagues, partners, and community members. We are privileged to learn, teach, and conduct our research on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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Our commitment is enacted through the interrelated areas of interest and expertise:

Language and literacy learning and teaching in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts


Critical and anti-oppressive approaches to literacy and language education

Indigenous Language & Literacy Education


Arts-based, literary, and embodied learning in language and literacy education

Digital media, cultures and technologies in language and literacy education


Theories and methodologies for literacy and language education research

Recent Publications

Multimodal language teaching. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1094
Cervatiuc, A. (2025)
Teaching writing to English language learners through a constructivist approach. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1027.pub2
Cervatiuc, A. (2025)
Grappling with cisgender positionality in Applied Linguistics research with trans participants. TESOL Quarterly, 1-13. Http://www.doi.org/10.1002/tesq.70013
Spiegelman, J.D. (2025)
Queer breaches and normative devices: Language learners queering gender, sexuality, and the L2 classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCHTJERJBZSUTRNXQ2B3/full?target=10.1080/13670050.2024.2306398
Moore, A., Coda, J., Spiegelman, J. D., & Cahnmann-Taylor, M. (2024)
“They hear it from me”: Student voices on critically assessing digital multimodal composing. International Journal of Educational Research, 1 (33), 102737.
Ferreira, J., & Kendrick, M. (2025)
Maybe next time I’ll try talking to men (poem). Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 9(2), 121-122.
Moore, A. (2025)
“That poem was pretty wild to me”: On personal safety and precarious moments in teacher candidates’ responses to sexual assault narratives. Research in the Teaching of English, 59(3), 311-339. https://doi.org/10.58680/rte2025593311
Moore, A. (2025)
"We're not kids!": Aged authority in elementary students' classroom peer interactions. Research on Children and Social Interaction 9(1), 77-103. https://doi.org/10.3138/rcsi-2025-0005
Corella, M. (2025)
Metacognitive Instruction and Oral Corrective Feedback: Impacts on Metacognitive Awareness and Speaking Accuracy in Learners of English as a Foreign Language. RELC Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882251370760
Kim, T., & Whitehead, G. E. (2025)

News & Events

Visiting Scholar Talk: Ethics and Researching Young Children’s Digital Lives and Learning
Sep 17, 2025

Visiting Scholar Talk: Toddlers, Tech and Talk: 0-3-year-old children’s language and literacy learning at home in a post-digital age

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Patsy Duff

Online MEd in Literacy Education 2026

Congratulations to Serikbolsyn Tastanbek
Sep 16, 2025

REACH Workshop Series: Insider, Outsider, In-Between: Navigating Positionality in Ethnographic Research
Sep 11, 2025

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