Graduate Student Profiles
Introducing LLED's Graduate Students
The names included below are those of graduate students who consented to such a 'web-presence' and have provided the information you find below.
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Samuel Andema - MA andemasam@yahoo.co.uk Research interests: Digital literacy and teacher education. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Jaime Beck - MA jaimebeck[at]yahoo[dot]com Research interests: Teacher attrition; teacher induction and mentorship; research-based theatre; performative inquiry; narrative inquiry; drama across the curriculum. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Natasha Boskic - PhD natasha.boskic@ubc.ca Research interests: The intersections of gaming and literacy, with a focus on the forms of textuality that are specific to these narrative spaces, and the ways students engage with them. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Diane Collier - PhD |
| Reginald D'Silva - PhD radsilva@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Use of technology in language and literacy education contexts and digital research tools. ___________________________________________________________ |
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| Isabelle Denizot - PhD idenizot@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Second language acquisition; learning content in a second language; second language reading comprehension; second language assessment; French immersion; French as a second language. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Ryan Deschambault
- PhD rdescham@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: ___________________________________________________________ |
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Alfredo Afonso Ferreira PhD fredjie@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Multiple literacies, social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, critical pedagogy, TESL, English for academic purposes. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Deborah Gibson - PhD debgibson@telus.net Research interests: First language acquisition, lexical acquisition, early words, autism. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Joel Heng Hartse - PhD Research interests: Second language writing; world Englishes; native and non-native English-speaking teachers in EFL contexts; TESL and culture; discourses of popular music. ___________________________________________________________ |
| Ling He - PhD lingheli@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Second language writing; large-scale writing assessment; composition theory and pedagogy; sociolinguistics. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Lei Hong - PhD leih@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Intelligent computer-assisted language learning (ICALL), learner autonomy, teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language (TCSL/TCFL), visual literacy and multimodality. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Ji Eun Kim - PhD jieun_kim2@yahoo.ca Research interests: Early literacy; family literacy; sociocultural literacy practice. Website ___________________________________________________________ |
| Mi-Young Kim - PhD mykim5@gmail.com Research interests: Second language writing; sociolinguistics; teaching English as an international language. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Kimberly Lenters - PhD lenters@telus.net Research interests: Socio-cultural aspects of literacy learning in school and out-of-school contexts; utilization of sociocultural understandings of literacy development to strengthen literacy instruction with elementary school-aged children. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Pamela Lester - MA crcllegaa@gmail.com Research interests: Chinese as a second language; second language identity construction; sociolinguistics; second language socialization. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Rae-Ping Lin
- PhD pingolin@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Second language writing; globalization and ELT; English pedagogies in EFL contexts; non-native English teacher issues. ___________________________________________________________ |
| Yu Liu - PhD dawson8888@hotmail.com Research interests: Linguistic minority children's bi-literacy development; first and second language acquisition; family and community literacy; home language maintenance/loss; teaching Chinese as a foreign language; computer-aided language teaching and learning. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Onowa McIvor - PhD onowa@telus.net Research interests: First Nations language revitalization; Indigenous second language acquisition; adult immersion practices; early childhood bilingualism; cultural identity issues; autoethnography. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Marianne McTavish - PhD mmctavish@shaw.ca Research interests: Sociocultural dimensions of young children's information literacy learning in home, school and community contexts; early literacy acquisition; family literacy programming; authentic literacy instruction. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Maryam Moayeri - PhD |
| Lyndsay Moffatt - PhD lmoffatt@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Social constructions of literacy and learning; socio-cultural theories of learning; post-structural literary theories; discourse analysis; children's literature; critical pedagogy. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Chiyo Benjamin - PhD chiyom@gmail.com Research interests: TESL; second language use; language and identity construction; multicompetent ESL teachers/teaching; second language socialization; bilingual education; globalization; internationalization; qualitative research; discourse analysis; critical pedagogy. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Laura Nimmon - PhD Research interests: Health literacy; socio-cultural practices of literacy; critical pedagogy; family literacy; adult literacy. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Lauryn Oates - PhD lauryn.oates@gmail.com Research interests: Teacher-produced local language content; teachers and digital literacy in developing country contexts; revitalization of mother tongues; language and the open education resource movement; peacebuilding and education. ___________________________________________________________ |
| Mia Perry - PhD miaperry@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Performance studies; theatre and drama in education; devised theatre; post-structuralist theory; public pedagogy. ___________________________________________________________ |
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| Don K. Philpot - PhD donkp@mts.net Research interests: Elementary reading education; narrative theory and children’s fiction; research with school-age children; functions of grammatical description in literacy learning. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Sara Schroeter - PhD sarasch@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Critical pedagogy; arts-based research; multimodal literacy; theatre and drama in education; identity construction; conflict resolution ___________________________________________________________ |
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Ahava Shira - PhD ahava@saltspringhome.com Research interests: Using arts-based practices (poetry, performance, a/r/tography) to inquire into what it means to engage in a loving way toward self, others and the natural world. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Kathryn Shoemaker - PhD kshoe@telus.net Research interests: Social semiotic analysis of picturebooks. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Bong-gi Sohn
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Jodi Streelasky - PhD streel7@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Family literacy, emergent literacy, Aboriginal education, Reggio Emilia philosophy, multimodal ways of learning. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Velma-Claire Sutherland - PhD vs414@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: First Nations education and language revitalization; immersion education; literacy. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Lucía I. Terra Figari - PhD luterra@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Editing; writing; publishing; Public Knowledge Project; Latin American universities; international development. ___________________________________________________________ |
| Carolyn Thauberger - PhD cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Literacy instruction; reading instruction; reading fluency; self-regulated learning; teacher education. ___________________________________________________________ |
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| Michael Noel Trottier
- PhD mntrotz@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Performance literacy, critical education theory, non-formal/out-of-school learning, language socialization of local homestay students, English as a second language (ESL), teacher training, bilingualism, and my 4-year-old's second (English) & third (French) language development etc. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Amanda Wager - PhD wageramanda@gmail.com Research interests: Theatre and drama in education, arts-based research, second language acquisition, TESL, bilingualism and multilingualism, immigration, social justice. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Meike Wernicke - PhD meike@uni.ca Research interests: French as a second language (FSL), bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, Open Education, critical theory, poststructuralism, civic identity, language policy. Website ___________________________________________________________ |
| Vincent White - PhD vwhite@nvsd44.bc.ca Research Interests: Educational leadership, counselling and drama; individual and systemic change in public education; teacher education and technology; narrative inquiry. ___________________________________________________________ |
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Kari-Lynn Winters - PhD kari@kariwinters.com Research interests: Authorship; multimodal ways of learning; children's literature (particularly picture books); socio-cultural theories of literacy and literacy learning; drama-in-education. Website ___________________________________________________________ |