Welcome to Language and Literacy Education (LITR)

Introduction

Our diploma, masters and doctoral programs in Literacy Education engage teachers and other professional educators in the study of rich language and literacy practices from early childhood through adolescence and adulthood. Literacy studies have expanded dramatically in recent years and our internationally known Faculty draw on many disciplines that inform the study of language and literacy education, including cognitive, linguistic, anthropological, cultural, literary, critical and post-structural perspectives.

In our courses we invite students to reflect critically on contemporary language and literacy practices in and out of schools, spanning local, national and glo bal contexts. Our focus is on the many rich, multiethnic and multilingual contexts of language and literacy learning in our schools and communities.

Greater Vancouver offers a beautiful geographical setting and a rich multicultural environment as a backdrop for graduate studies.

Areas of specialization include:

• Early/Intermediate/adolescent literacy practices (reading, writing, language arts)
• English Education
• Children's and adolescents' literature
• Drama and theatre education
• Digital, multimodal and new literacies
• Adult, family and community language and literacies

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