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  • Congratulations to our faculty on their promotions

    We are excited to announce that the following four faculty members have been granted promotion effective from July 1, 2025 onwards. Please join us in congratulating them on this important and wonderful achievement! Dr. Iris Berger has been promoted to the role of Associate Professor of Teaching;Dr. Meghan Corella has been promoted to the role […] Read More

  • LLED 565A in 2025-26 W1

    LLED 565A-061 Special Course Subject MTFLD (A)Topic: Language socialization across mono/bi/multilingual contexts Winter Term 1 from Sept to Dec 2025Thursdays, 4:30 to 7:30 PM Instructor: Dr. Sandra Zappa-Hollman This special-topics course is an introduction to language/literacy socialization, a theoretical perspective that foregrounds the role of interactionally-mediated activities in socializing newcomers into their respective new communities. […] Read More

  • LLED 442 in 2025-26 W1

    LLED 442: Trends and Issues in Teaching Environmental Children’s Literature Winter Term 1 from Sept to Dec 2025Monday, 4 to 7 PM Instructor: Dr. Derek Gladwin What stories are we telling children about the world—and what futures do those stories invite them to imagine? This course explores how teaching children’s literature can engage youth in […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen on being selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education

    We are delighted to share that Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen has been selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education (IAE) (http://www.iaoed.org), an important recognition of her exceptional contributions to the field of education. Election to the IAE is reserved for scholars who have demonstrated a sustained record of excellence in educational research and […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award at the ABCDE Roundtable! This well-deserved recognition acknowledges Melanie’s outstanding dedication, innovation, and numerous contributions to the field of teacher education. She is a passionate educator and an advocate for using technologies as a tool to support all learners.  […] Read More

  • LLED Graduate Student Conference 2025 Recap

    Thank you to everyone who came out to the LLED Graduate Student Conference on April 16. It was wonderful to see so many of you there. Special thanks to our GPA Team: Firth, Nicholle, Chinazam, and Charu. The event would not be possible without your thoughtful planning, organization and execution. Very best wishes to everyone […] Read More

We are a collective of educators committed to social justice in our work with students, colleagues, partners, and community members. We are privileged to learn, teach, and conduct our research on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.

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Our commitment is enacted through the interrelated areas of interest and expertise:

Language and literacy learning and teaching in multilingual, multicultural, and multimodal contexts


Critical and anti-oppressive approaches to literacy and language education

Indigenous Language & Literacy Education


Arts-based, literary, and embodied learning in language and literacy education

Digital media, cultures and technologies in language and literacy education


Theories and methodologies for literacy and language education research

Recent Publications

So that our languages live on: Indigenous language medium-immersion programs in post-secondary education. In A.V. Brown, C. Crane, B. Dupuy, E. Ene (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language Program Development and Administration (pp. 415-426). Routledge
Mākaʻimoku, K., Galla, C.K., Kawaiʻaeʻa, K., *Teria, J.S. (forthcoming: 2025, July)
Navigating “difficult knowledge” in digital stories: Teacher agency, transmediation and translanguaging approaches. Journal of Language and Literacy Education. Spring, 1-18. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TS05Pw32dwVvijofdfUj78-IMAsJ0wor/view
*Doherty, L. & Norton, B. (2025)
“There's nothing to read here…the newspaper is cho cá, for the fish!”: A Young Refugee-Background Child Brokering Languages, Literacies, and Cultures as a Caring Multiliterate Practice. Reading Research Quarterly, 60: e70018, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.70018
Rajagopal, H. and Anderson, J. (2025)
Centering art-making in Research-based Theatre: A language and a/r/tographical inquiry. JACE (Journal of Artistic and Creative Education), 17(1). https://jace.online/index.php/jace/article/view/9017
Belliveau, G. (2025).
Conceptualizing Relational Technologies for Native Hawaiian (HI)stories and Contemporary Realities in the Pacific Northwest. BC Studies, 224, 91-114
Galla, C.K., Zhuravleva, A., & MacEachern, F. (2025)
Monologues from the minoritized: Racialized students’ experiences in French immersion. Canadian Modern Language Review, 81(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3138/cmlr-2024-0001
Kunnas, M. (2025)
“I’m going to stay…”: Exploring Factors Impacting English Language Teachers Occupational and Organizational Commitment. English Teaching & Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-025-00209-z
Whitehead, G.E.K., Moodie, I. & Al-Hoorie, A.H. (2025)
Identity and English for specific purposes. In S. Starfield & C. Hafner (eds.) The handbook of English for specific purposes, (2nd ed.). Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119985068.ch30
Darvin, R. & Zhang, Y. (2025)
Linguistic diversity in the classroom: Embracing multilingual perspectives and pedagogies. Futurum, 31, https://doi.org/10.33424/FUTURUM570
Zappa-Hollman, S. (2025)

News & Events

Congratulations to our faculty on their promotions
Jun 24, 2025

LLED 565A in 2025-26 W1
Jun 12, 2025

LLED 442 in 2025-26 W1
Jun 05, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen on being selected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Education
May 13, 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Melanie Wong on receiving the 2025 Emerging Teacher Educator Award
May 07, 2025

LLED Graduate Student Conference 2025 Recap
May 06, 2025

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2025W EDUC 500 Part-Time Sessional Lecturer
Application Deadline: July 3, 2025

2025W Graduate Peer Advisors
Application Deadline: July 14, 2025

2025W Graduate Academic Assistant – Research, Engagement and Collaboration Hub
Application Deadline: July 14, 2025

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