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Language & Literacy Education
  • Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites at the presentation of the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Palmes Académiques

    Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites at the presentation of the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Palmes Académiques

  • Dr. Bonny Norton, University Killam Professor, presented at Research Horizons: what now, what next?

    Research horizons: what now, what next? An evening with UBC’s newest University Killam Professors Professor Bonny Norton’s seminal research on identity, language learning, and social change is internationally renowned. To promote multilingual literacy for children and youth worldwide, she leads the Global Storybooks project, which harnesses the scalability of digital technology to provide free online […]

  • Pramad Sah successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!

    Please join us in congratulating Pramod Sah on the successful defence of his doctoral dissertation entitled ‘New hierarchies, new elites: A critical ethnography of English as a medium of instruction policy in Nepali public schools’ on May 2nd, 2022.

  • Wasan Qasim successfully defended her MA thesis. Congratulations!

    Wasan Qasim successfully defended her MA thesis. Congratulations!

  • Congratulations to Jonathan Ferreira on being awarded a UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

    Congratulations to Jonathan Ferreira on being awarded a UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

  • Dr. Annette Henry is celebrated in the 2022 publication of 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women

  • Lingering with Love & Loss | Remembering Carl Leggo

    Lingering with Love & Loss | Remembering Carl Leggo

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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

Contemporary pedagogical approaches to developing high oral communicative competence. ARA Journal. Arts and Humanities (new series), 37(1).
Cervatiuc, A. (2022)
Asynchronous and synchronous online TESOL Education. In J. I. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley. 
Cervatiuc, A. (2022)
The Multilingual turn in TESOL. In J. I. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY: Wiley.
Cervatiuc, A. (2022)
Access and use of digital technologies in early childhood: A review of mixed messages in popular media. Language and Literacy 23 (3) 106-109. DOI:10.20360/langandlit29546
Teichert, L., Anderson, J., Anderson, A., Hare, J., & McTavish, M. (10/2021).
Solarities: Seeking energy justice. A. Vermuri & D. Barney (Ed.). University of Minnesota Press.
After Oil Collective (Gladwin, D. et al.). (2022)
Towards critical translanguaging: A review of literature on English as a medium of instruction in South Asia’s school education. Asian Englishes. https://doi.org/10.1080/13488678.2022.2056796
Sah, P. K., & Kubota, R. (2022)
Plurilingualism, equity, and preservice teacher identity: Centring (linguistic) diversity in teacher education. TESL Canada Journal, 38(2), 114–139. https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v38i2.1359
Shank Lauwo, M., Accurso, K., & Rajagopal, H. (2022).
Professors’ views of content transformation in students’ paraphrasing. Journal of Response to Writing, 7 (2), 112-144. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol7/iss2/5
Shi, L. (2021)
Translingual identity and professional legitimacy of two Western-education English writing instructors in Taiwan. Journal of Language, Identity and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2021.1974865
Lin, R., & Shi, L. (2021)

News & Events

Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites at the presentation of the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Palmes Académiques
May 9, 2022

Dr. Bonny Norton, University Killam Professor, presented at Research Horizons: what now, what next?
May 4, 2022

Pramad Sah successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022
Pramod Kumar Sah’s Dissertation Defence
April 25, 2022

Wasan Qasim successfully defended her MA thesis. Congratulations!
April 14, 2022

April 14, 2022
Wasan Qasim’s MA Thesis Defence
April 11, 2022

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2022W Graduate Teaching Assistants in UBC-Rits ASTU
Application deadline: Friday, May 27, 2022

2022W Graduate Teaching Assistants in UBC-Rits LLED
Application deadline: Friday, May 27, 2022

2022W1 Part-Time Sessional Lecturers in UBC-Rits ASTU
Application deadline: Friday, May 27, 2022


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