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.
| David Beare - PhD dbeare@nvsd44.bc.ca Research interests: Secondary theatre education; positive youth development; social and emotional learning; alternative theatre programs for youth in counselling and education; collaborative play-creating process ___________________________________________________________ |
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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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| 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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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. ___________________________________________________________ |
| 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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| 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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| Tannis Morgan - PhD tannis_morgan@bcit.ca Research interests: Activity theory; online teaching; online community; participation and non-participation in online contexts; distance education; community of inquiry; Web 2.0 and formal and informal learning contexts ___________________________________________________________ |
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Chiyo Mori - 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, democratic 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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Jérémie Séror - PhD jeremies@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: Second language socialization; academic discourse; writing teacher feedback; bilingual education; internationalization; and qualitative research methods Website ___________________________________________________________ |
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Kathryn Shoemaker - PhD kshoe@telus.net Research interests: Social semiotic analysis of picturebooks ___________________________________________________________ |
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Velma-Claire Sutherland - PhD vs414@interchange.ubc.ca Research interests: First Nations education and language revitalization; immersion education; literacy ___________________________________________________________ |
| Sin Heng Celine Sze - PhD celinesze@hotmail.com Research interests: TESL; children learning to read and write in English as a second language; multimodality of children's writing; identity issues in immigrant children; school and home factors in ESL children's literacy development ___________________________________________________________ |
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Juliet Tembe - PhD juliet_tembe@yahoo.co.uk Research interests: Second language teaching; language policy and planning; bilingual education; minority language education ___________________________________________________________ |
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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 ___________________________________________________________ |