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LLED
  • Congratulations to ACLA Award Winners

    ACLA award winners Please join us in congratulating our LLED faculty and students whose work was recognized this past week at the annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (ACLA). Congratulations Cheyenne, Leah, Monica, and Julia! Photos at the awards ceremony Photos at the awards ceremony, courtesy of Harini Rajagopal and Meike Wernicke. Read More

  • Congratulations to Meike Wernicke, Candace Galla, and Nicole George for Best of the MLJ Award 2025

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Meike Wernicke, Dr. Candace Galla, and Nicole George, whose article has been selected for the Best of The MLJ Award for 2025! Wernicke, M., Galla, C., & George, N. (2025). Rethinking French-as-a-second-language education as a space for supporting Indigenous language work on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) land. The Modern Language Journal, 109(3), […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Accurso and Team on 2026 Large TLEF Transformation Grant

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Kathryn Accurso on being awarded a 2026 Large TLEF Transformation grant (Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund). Large TLEFTransformation grants support innovative, multi-year educational initiatives that directly benefit students. This year’s competition awarded funding to seven new projects across UBC Faculties, totaling $500K.  The project brings together partners from LLED, EDCP, Indigenous Education, and local […] Read More

  • Congratulations to LLED Faculty Wellbeing Champions

    Faculty Wellbeing Champions Celebrated at Inaugural Student-Driven Event Please join us to congratulate all the faculty members who were celebrated at the 2026 inaugural Faculty Wellbeing Champions Recognition Event on April 7, 2026! This event was designed as a celebration where all 124 faculty nominated by students were recognized as “Faculty Wellbeing Champions.” The student […] 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

Rethinking temporalities through being with children: A dialogic reflection. Global Studies of Childhood. DOI: 10.1177/20436106261449427/ ID: GSC-26-0055
Supa, M., Willett, R., Kumpulainen, K., Rajagopal, H., Byman, J., Coleman, L., Kociubuk, J., Renlund, J., Wong, C., & Wong, M. (2026)
Identity, Investment, and Critical Applied Linguistics. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Critical Applied Linguistics), C.A.Chapelle & Pedro dosSantos (Eds.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20088
Darvin R. (2026)
Critical Digital Literacies. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Literacy), C.A.Chapelle & Eva Lam Wan Shun (Eds.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20282
Darvin R. (2026)
Literacy: An Introduction. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Literacy), C.A.Chapelle & Ron Darvin (Eds.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20918
Darvin R. & Lam E. (2026)
Language teacher identity development through professionalization on study abroad. In V. Tavares & S. Melo-Pfeifer (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Identity (pp. 450–464). Taylor & Francis. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003495390-33
Wernicke, M. (2026)
汉语二语教学中的阅读策略(2015-2025):十年回顾与未来展望 [Reading strategies in teaching Chinese as a second language (2015–2025): A decade review and future prospects]. 语言战略研究 (Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning), 1(9), 88-101.
Li, G., & Zhou, W. (2026)
Multilingual and English Language Education in South Asia: Historical and Future Perspective. In Chi-Kin Lee, J. (Eds) Handbook of Asian Educational Innovation towards the Futures of Education (pp. 1-20). Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3901-4_37-1
Sah, P., & Li, G. (2026)
Supporting multilingual learners’ literacy learning in Canadian Classrooms: Teacher pedagogical perspectives and practices. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10671-026-09422-4
Li, G., & Lin, Z. (2026)
From monolingualism to plurilingualism: multimodal arts-based cultural probes as catalysts for linguistic justice in an afterschool literacy program. The Reading Teacher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/trtr.70045
Li, G., Ferreira, J., Mei, Z., & Yeung, H. H. (2026)

News & Events

Congratulations to ACLA Award Winners
May 29, 2026

Public Talk with Dr. Maryanne Theobald, Queensland University of Technology
May 19, 2026

Congratulations to Meike Wernicke, Candace Galla, and Nicole George for Best of the MLJ Award 2025
May 18, 2026

Congratulations to Dr. Accurso and Team on 2026 Large TLEF Transformation Grant
May 14, 2026

Public Talk with Dr. Stanton Wortham, Boston College
May 11, 2026

Public Talk with Dr. Deoksoon Kim, Boston College

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Job Postings

2026S2 LLED 489C Graduate Teaching Assistant
Application Deadline: June 17, 2026

2026W Graduate Peer Advisors (GPAs)
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026

2026W Graduate Academic Advisor (GAA) for ABER Group
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026

2026W Graduate Academic Advisor (GAA) for ARC
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026

2026W Graduate Peer Facilitator (GPF)
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026

2026W-2027S1 Graduate Academic Assistant (GAA) for REACH
Application Deadline: June 23, 2026

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