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Language and Literacy Education (LLED)

The range of the Department's work includes research and teaching in Literacy Education, Teaching English as a Second Language, Modern Language Education and Teacher Librarianship. LLED also contributes to the MA Program in Children's Literature, working with colleagues in the Faculty of Arts, and maintains a strong interest in the teaching of verbal and related arts, particularly literature and drama/theatre education.

We invite you to explore this site to learn about our work in Canada and internationally. You will see that we collaborate with educators committed to social change and better opportunities for learning in many places: in school districts in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, with Canadian colleagues in each province, and with researchers and educators in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and across North and South America.

We welcome your enquiries: please make contact if you would like to know more about our research and teaching programs.

Dr Geoff Williams
Head

LLED's Noted Scholar 2010 Professor Gunther Kress is the Department's Noted Scholar for this year. We are delighted to be able to welcome him. He will teach an intensive graduate course for the week July 12-16, Image in the environment of multimodal representation and communication: A social semiotic approach. Gunther will also give a public lecture on his interest in multiliteracies during his visit. Details of this lecture will be announced shortly. Click here for the abstract of his plenary talk at the International Systemic Functional Congress in the following week, July 18-23. Federal government press release - Recently announced research funding to Jan Hare for Aboriginal Family Literacy development. Summer 2010 Courses - preliminary list, subject to change Digital Literacy Centre 2009-2010 Lecture Series 37th International Systemic Functional Congress, UBC, July 18-23, 2010. Pre-congress Institute, UBC, July 12-16. Dr. Mary Ashworth Memorial Scholarship Fund - Special Appeal. The UBC Faculty of Education is raising funds to endow a scholarship in memory of Dr. Mary Ashworth , a Professor Emerita of Language and Literacy Education, who passed away on January 20, 2009. To learn more about supporting this important initiative, please send an email to jacqueline dot doering at ubc dot ca or call 604-827-5213.