Research Interests by Faculty Members

Jim Anderson
Socio-cultural dimensions of literacy acquisition

Marlene Asselin
School librarianship and information literacy

George Belliveau
Drama education, teacher education, and Canadian theatre

Monique Bournot-Trites
Second language acquisition, learning content in a second language and assessment

Stephen Carey
Applied linguistics and bilingual education

Marilyn Chapman
Early reading and writing development

Teresa Dobson
Literacy and the new media

Patricia Duff
Second language acquisition, classroom research, language socialization

Margaret Early
Second language acquisition, teaching English as a second language, multiple literacies

Margot Filipenko
Early literacy

Lee Gunderson
ESL reading

Jan Hare
Aboriginal education; Aboriginal literacy, Aboriginal mobility; early childhood education

Maureen Kendrick
BEd, MEd, PhD Literacy as a sociocultural practice; multimodality and ethnography

Carl Leggo
BA, BEd, MA, MEd, PhD Post-structuralist critical theory

Carmen Medina
BA, MA, PhD Examination of elementary students' interpretation of critical literature including their mediations of identities and social locations through drama in education

Bonny Norton
Language, identity, and international development

Victoria Purcell-Gates
Literacy development in sociocultural contexts

Kenneth Reeder
Pragmatics, child language, bilingualism, technology and language learning

Theresa Rogers
Intermediate and adolescent literacy practices from a socio-cultural perspective

Jon Shapiro
Reading difficulties, affective domain

Ling Shi
Second language writing, English for specific purposes

Steven Talmy
Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, teaching English as a second language

Robert Tierney
Literacy learning and education, nature and role of educational research, assessment and teacher professionalism, multimedia and agency

Geoff Williams
Educational linguistics; socio-semantic variation and early literacy development; functions of grammatical description in literacy learning; poetics of children’s literature

John Willinsky
Post-structuralist and post-colonial curriculum theory

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