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  • Scholarship Stories: Dr. Anwar Ahmed

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  • Demystifying the Comps 2025

    Demystifying the Comps in 2025 in LLED Presented by the Comps Demystifiers 2025 Team: Speakers: Dr. Teresa Dobson, Dr. Amber Moore, Ziwen Mei, Frances Macapagal Maddalozzo, Ryosuke AoyamaDate: November 13, 2025Time: 9:30AM – 12:00PMLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) About “Demystifying the Comps” Organized by LLED PhD students in collaboration with the LLED Leadership and Faculty, this initiative […] Read More

  • Public Talk: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

    The Impact of International Student Policies on the Recruitment of Japanese Language Teachers at Japanese Universities Speaker: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University, JapanDate: November 18, 2025Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM PDTLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) Abstract Japan’s international student policies have resulted in an increase in the number of learners. However, it is important to […] Read More

  • Special Issue in Language Awareness

    Drs. Ron Darvin & Kathryn Accurso co-editted this special issue in Language Awareness, Vol 34, Issue 2, which looks at how language teachers and students around the world are working to challenge unfair systems in education, especially those rooted in colonialism and racism. This collaborative issue is titled: “Texts and countertexts: dismantling dominating discourses through […] Read More

  • LLED 505 in 2025-26 W2

    LLED 505: Environmental Literacy Winter Term 2 from Jan to Apr 2026Wednesday, 4 to 7 PM Instructor: Dr. Derek Gladwin How might we live, learn, and research more ecologically? This course invites researchers, educators, citizens, and leaders to explore literacy and language through an ecological lens—connecting theory, practice, and lived experience. More broadly, it encourages participants […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair, alongside Drs. Shannon Bischoff and Mary Encabo Bischoff at Purdue University Fort Wayne (Indiana, USA). The official location of this UNESCO Chair is Purdue Fort Wayne. UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is a network that brings […] 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

Timely and timeless topic: Global Englishes in L2 writing pedagogy and challenges (commentary). Journal of Second Language Writing, 70, 101252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jslw.2025.101252
Kubota, R. (2025)
Decolonial and antiracist teacher education practice: Challenges and alternatives. The Modern Language Journal, 109(3), 686–695. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.13015
Kubota, R., & Motha, S. (2025)
Gender and race in ESP research. In S. Starfield (ed.), Handbook of English for specific purposes (2nd ed.) (pp. 563–581). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119985068.ch29
Kubota, R. (2025)
Antiracist and decolonial perspectives of teaching EIL: Theory and enactment. In A. F. Selvi & N. Galloway (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of English as an international language (pp. 267–279). Routledge.
Kubota, R. (2025)
From multiculturalism to social justice: Implications for language education in the United States and Canada. In C. Fäcke, X. (A). Gao, & P. Garrett-Rucks (Eds.), Handbook of plurilingual and intercultural language learning (pp. 29–42). Wiley Blackwell.
Kubota, R. (2025)
Becoming Ecological: Navigating Language and Meaning for Our Planet’s Future. Aevo (trade imprint of University of Toronto Press).
Gladwin, D. & James, K. (2026)
Heat, Smoke, and Urban Health: Cooling and Cleaner Air Centres as a tool for adaptation in a Canadian Urban Region. Cities and Health, 1-17 (Online-ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2558285
Apantaku, G., Polgár, A., Giroux, F., Giang, A., Gladwin, D., & Ellis, N. (2025)
Storying Systems Change: Learning and Living with Complexity. Systems Practice and Action Research 38(23) (Online-ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-025-09732-3
Gladwin, D., & Ellis, N. (2025)
Applied linguistics research and the triple crisis of interdisciplinarity. In L. McCallum, D. Tafazoli, & A. H. Al-Hoorie (Eds.), Research cultures in applied linguistics and TESOL (pp. 36-55). Applied Linguistics Press.
Ahmed, A. (2025)

News & Events

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Anwar Ahmed
Nov 05, 2025

Literacy Research Fellowship
Oct 31, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. George Whitehead
Oct 29, 2025

Demystifying the Comps 2025
Oct 23, 2025

Public Talk: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Oct 22, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Lisa Kervin, Visiting Scholar
Oct 21, 2025

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Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)
Application Deadline: November 7, 2025

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