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  • Guest Lecture – Cognition-in-Interaction: A Case of Novice Language Teachers

    Event Details Speakers: Prof. Li Li, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor & Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Exeter (UK)Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024Time: 10:00 AMLocation: Multipurpose Room, Ponderosa Commons North (PCN 2012) Theme:Cognition-in-interaction: a case of novice language teachers Abstracts Teacher cognition has been an important agenda of language teacher education in recent decades, and it […] Read More

  • LLED Arts-based Research Gathering November 2024

    Theme: “Celebrating the Irreplaceable Spirit of Human Creativity in the Age of AI” Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024Time: 5:30PM – 7:00PMLocation: Ponderosa Commons North, Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) RSVP: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7UkG6EHa053ErQy LLED will soon be hosting our next informal Arts-based Educational Research (ABER) gathering! We continue to do this in the Department to advance this important area of […] Read More

  • LLED Research Seminar: How can we bridge the gap between research and practice in language teacher education?

    Event Details Speakers: Dr. George Whitehead, Dr. Kathryn Accurso, Giovanna Lucci, Kyu Yun LimDate: Tuesday, November 26Time: 3:00PM – 4:30PMLocation: Ponderosa Commons North, Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) Theme:How can we bridge the gap between research and practice in language teacher eduation? Abstracts Narrowing the theory-practice divide: In-service teachers’ perspectives on the ideal educator for pre-service language teachersGeorge E.K. […] Read More

  • LLINK Presents: Dr. Leah Kelley – Connecting Disability Studies to Educational Practice

    Speaker: Dr. Leah KelleyDate: Thursday, November 21, 2024 Time: 5pm – 6pm PSTLocation: Virtual via ZoomRSVP: https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b3ghwEvn1AMjToy Join us for this special LLINK: Literacy & Libraries: Investigating New Knowledges event featuring Dr. Leah Kelley, author of The Person Who Arrives: Connecting Disability Studies and Educational Practice for Teachers, Parents, and Others (2023). This talk is for educators interested in […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Ron Darvin on receiving Best Paper Award 2023 from English for Specific Purposes

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ron Darvin on receiving the English for Specific Purposes: Best Paper Award 2023 for the article “Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom“.  The editors of English for Specific Purposes selected Ron’s article based on its originality, scientific quality and global impact. It […] Read More

  • Online MEd in Literacy Education 2025

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  • Congratulations to Dr. Patsy Duff who has been named as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Patsy Duff who has been named as a new Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)! Patsy will be joined by six other UBC faculty members who were elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly achievements. They are distinguished individuals from all branches of learning who have […] 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

The materiality of children’s imaginative sense-making in climate change education. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.51
Wong, C. C., Kumpulainen, K., Renlund, J., & Byman, J. (2024)
Aesthetic flux: inquiring into the sensuous dynamics of children, matter and environments with a more-than-human lens. Environmental Education Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2350675
Renlund, J., Kumpulainen, K., Byman, J., Wong, C. C., & Sintonen, S. (2024)
Lingering with multispecies kin: Re-turning to encounters between children, invertebrates and amphibians. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Published online 2024:1-15. doi:10.1017/aee.2024.20
Byman J., Kumpulainen K., & Renlund J. (2024)
Critical engagement with digital health: A socio-material analysis of physical education teachers’ digital health mind maps. Health Education Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969241255222
MacIsaac, S., Gray, S., Camacho-Miñano, M. J., Rich, E., & Kumpulainen, K. (2024)
The boundary crossing of knowledge and the emergence of relational expertise in a school makerspace. Education. Sciences, 14, 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14020169
Leskinen, J., Kumpulainen, K., & Kajamaa, A. (2024)
“They're like slash”: Multimodality and embodied agency in students' critical engagements with texts. Reading Research Quarterly, 60: e585. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.585
Aragón, M.J., Corella, M., & Lang, N.W. (2025)
Intimately Situated Stories of Place: Activating Place-Centered Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education. Palgrave Macmillan.
Berger, I. (2024)
English online/offline: Distinguishing material and materialist interpretations of entanglements. In J. Lee & S. Rüdiger (Eds.). Entangled Englishes. Routledge.
Darvin, R. (2025)
Empathy and Listening in Research-based Theatre. Arts. 13(5), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13050140
Cook, C. & Belliveau, G. (2024)

News & Events

Guest Lecture – Cognition-in-Interaction: A Case of Novice Language Teachers
Nov 14, 2024

LLED Arts-based Research Gathering November 2024
Nov 13, 2024

LLED Research Seminar: How can we bridge the gap between research and practice in language teacher education?
Nov 08, 2024

LLINK Presents: Dr. Leah Kelley – Connecting Disability Studies to Educational Practice
Nov 05, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Ron Darvin on receiving Best Paper Award 2023 from English for Specific Purposes
Oct 17, 2024

LLED Arts-based Research Gathering October 2024
Oct 16, 2024

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Job Postings

2024W LLED 352 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Application Deadline: Noveber 15, 2024

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