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Language & Literacy Education
  • LLED Research Seminar with Dr. Takunori Terasawa

    Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 | 1:00PM – 2:00PM Location: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012) This event will include a 30-minute presentation with around 15 minutes for questions and 15 minutes for socialization. Snacks and drinks will be provided! Secondary Analysis of Social Surveys in Applied Linguistics Abstract: Although various sociological theories and methodologies have been […] Read More

  • Contemporary perspectives on language research

    Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023 | 11:00AM – 3:00PM Location: Multipurpose Room (PCN 2012), Ponderosa Commons North Lunch is served from 12:30 to 1:30pm. All are invited. Please RSVP if you’re joining us for lunch. In this two-session dialogue with Visiting Scholars, sponsored by LLED and Language Sciences, we expand our analytical lens and engage […] Read More

  • MEd in Literacy

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  • 2022 Graduate Student Endowed Awards Winners

    The award winners of the 2022 Graduate Student Endowed Awards competition has been announced, and we are excited to see LLED being well-represented! Congratulations to our graduate students on a job well done! Dean of Education Scholarship Anastasia Zhuravleva (LLED) Serikbolsyn Tastanbek (LLED) Donald and Ellen Poulter Scholarship Asma Afreen (LLED) Joseph Katz Memorial Scholarship […] Read More

  • 2023 LLED Graduate Student Conference

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  • Congratulations to Dr. Leah Macfadyen and Dr. Marianne McTavish

    Congratulations to Drs. Leah Macfadyen and Marianne McTavish on being the recipients of the 2022 The Language and Literacy Educational Leadership Award (LLELA)! The LLELA has been created through the generosity of an anonymous donor to recognize excellence among Educational Leadership faculty in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British […] Read More

  • Congratulations to the Faculty of Education’s SSHRC Insight Development Grants recipients

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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

Writing the Unwritable: Sebald, Haraway, and Creative Disobedience. Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald: Unsettling Complacency, Reconstructing Subjectivity, 14, 240-253.
Horst, R. (2022)
Between tradition and modernity: developments in Xiqu (Chinese opera) actor training, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 13:4, 616-622, DOI: 10.1080/19443927.2022.2135873
Chi, X. B., & Belliveau, G. (2022)
Slowing, Desiring, Haunting, Hospicing, and Longing for Change: Thinking With Snails in Canadian Early Childhood Education and Care. in education, Vol. 28 No. 1b (2022). https://doi.org/10.37119/ojs2022.v28i1b.658
Berger, I., Ashton, E., Lehrer, J., Pighini, M. (2022)
Editorial: Sketching Narratives of Movement in Early Childhood Education and Care. in education, Vol. 28 No. 1b (2022). https://doi.org/10.37119/ojs2022.v28i1b.682
Ashton, E., Berger, I., Maeers, E., Paquette, A. (2022)
Moving across a genre continuum: Pedagogical strategies for integrating online genres in the language classroom. English for Specific Purposes, vol 70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2022.11.004
Darvin, R. (2022)
“It’s better language”: The social meanings of academic language in an elementary classroom, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 19:2, 75-96.
Corella, M. (2022)
A systematic review of the role of learning analytics in enhancing feedback practices in higher education. Educational Research Review, 100489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100489
Banihashem, S. K., Noroozi, O., van Ginkel, S., P., Macfadyen, L., & Biemans, H. J. A. (2022)
Pedagogical design: Bridging learning theory and learning analytics. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.21432/cjlt27959
Banihashem, K. & Macfadyen, L. P. (2021)
Learning design and learning analytics: Snapshot 2020. Journal of Learning Analytics, 7 (3), 6-12. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2020.73.2
Macfadyen, L. P., Lockyer, L., & Rienties, B. (2020)

News & Events

February 7, 2023
LLED Research Seminar with Dr. Takunori Terasawa
February 2, 2023

March 23, 2023
Contemporary perspectives on language research
February 1, 2023

MEd in Literacy
January 26, 2023

Dr. Derek Gladwin on CBC show “What on Earth”
January 23, 2023

2022 Graduate Student Endowed Awards Winners
January 10, 2023

April 28-29, 2023
2023 LLED Graduate Student Conference
January 3, 2023

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Job Postings

Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Literacies
Application Deadline: February 15, 2023

Part-time instructor in the Institut de Français, UBC à Québec
Application Deadline: February 24, 2023

Open Rank Professoriate Stream Position in Indigenous Language and Literacy Education
Application Deadline: March 16, 2023


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