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