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LLED

  • Demystifying the Comps 2025

    Demystifying the Comps in 2025 in LLED Presented by the Comps Demystifiers 2025 Team: Speakers: Dr. Teresa Dobson, Dr. Amber Moore, Ziwen Mei, Frances Macapagal Maddalozzo, Ryosuke AoyamaDate: November 13, 2025Time: 9:30AM – 12:00PMLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) About “Demystifying the Comps” Organized by LLED PhD students in collaboration with the LLED Leadership and Faculty, this initiative […] Read More

  • Public Talk: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

    The Impact of International Student Policies on the Recruitment of Japanese Language Teachers at Japanese Universities Speaker: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University, JapanDate: November 18, 2025Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM PDTLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) Abstract Japan’s international student policies have resulted in an increase in the number of learners. However, it is important to […] Read More

  • Scholarship Stories: Dr. Lisa Kervin, Visiting Scholar

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  • Special Issue in Language Awareness

    Drs. Ron Darvin & Kathryn Accurso co-editted this special issue in Language Awareness, Vol 34, Issue 2, which looks at how language teachers and students around the world are working to challenge unfair systems in education, especially those rooted in colonialism and racism. This collaborative issue is titled: “Texts and countertexts: dismantling dominating discourses through […] Read More

  • LLED 505 in 2025-26 W2

    LLED 505: Environmental Literacy Winter Term 2 from Jan to Apr 2026Wednesday, 4 to 7 PM Instructor: Dr. Derek Gladwin How might we live, learn, and research more ecologically? This course invites researchers, educators, citizens, and leaders to explore literacy and language through an ecological lens—connecting theory, practice, and lived experience. More broadly, it encourages participants […] Read More

  • LLED Arts-Based Educational Research Gathering: “Seeing and Being Seen”

    Event Details Date: October 23, 2025Time: 9:00-10:30 AM PDTLocation: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) LLED Arts-Based Educational Research Gathering: “Seeing and Being Seen” LLED will soon be hosting our first informal Arts-based Educational Research (ABER) gathering of the year! We continue to do this in the Department to advance this important area of research, scholarship, and teaching. All […] Read More

  • Public Talk: Maddalena Vavassori

    Student Agency in Context: A Multi-Informant Exploration of Classroom Interactions Speaker: Maddalena Vavassori, PhD student at University of Parma, ItalyDate: October 23, 2025Time: 11AM-12PM PDTLocation: Digital Literacy Centre (PCN 1226) Abstract This presentation introduces my ongoing doctoral research, which focuses on the role of student agency in secondary school education. Student agency is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone […] 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

Remixing images, words, and ideas: Young emergent bilinguals composing remixed countertexts as a creative, relational, and decolonizing practice. Language Awareness, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2025.2546594
Rajagopal, H. (2025)
Texts and countertexts: dismantling dominating discourses through decolonizing and antiracist pedagogies. Language Awareness, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2025.2567942
Darvin, R., & Accurso, K. (2025)
Harnessing multilingual international students’ English academic socialization through asynchronous interactive online modules. TESL Canada Journal, 42(2), 65–78. https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v42i2/1432
Kowkabi, N., Yamamoto, M., & Lin, T-Y. (2025)
Multimodal language teaching. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1094
Cervatiuc, A. (2025)
Teaching writing to English language learners through a constructivist approach. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1027.pub2
Cervatiuc, A. (2025)
Grappling with cisgender positionality in Applied Linguistics research with trans participants. TESOL Quarterly, 1-13. Http://www.doi.org/10.1002/tesq.70013
Spiegelman, J.D. (2025)
Queer breaches and normative devices: Language learners queering gender, sexuality, and the L2 classroom. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QCHTJERJBZSUTRNXQ2B3/full?target=10.1080/13670050.2024.2306398
Moore, A., Coda, J., Spiegelman, J. D., & Cahnmann-Taylor, M. (2024)
“They hear it from me”: Student voices on critically assessing digital multimodal composing. International Journal of Educational Research, 1 (33), 102737.
Ferreira, J., & Kendrick, M. (2025)
Maybe next time I’ll try talking to men (poem). Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 9(2), 121-122.
Moore, A. (2025)

News & Events

Demystifying the Comps 2025
Oct 23, 2025

Public Talk: Dr. Hazuki Segawa, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Oct 22, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Lisa Kervin, Visiting Scholar
Oct 21, 2025

Special Issue in Language Awareness
Oct 17, 2025

LLED 505 in 2025-26 W2
Oct 14, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Melanie Wong

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Graduate Research Assistant (GRA)
Application Deadline: November 7, 2025

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