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  • Scholarship Stories: Dr. Carl Ruest

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  • Critical Conversation with Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart

    Event Details Speaker: Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart, University of Glasgow, UKDate: October 21, 2025Time: 10-11 AM PDTLocation: Virtual via Zoom Organized by the Global Research Collective on Anti-Oppressive Language Education Please join us for this public talk featuring Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart from University of Glasgow, UK. All welcome! Kindly RSVP for this event to receive the […] 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

  • LLINK Presents: Dr. Sara Davidson (SFU) – Indigenous Literacies and Storytelling

    Event Details Speaker: Dr. Sara Davidson, Assistant Professor at SFUDate: October 21, 2025Time: 5-6PM PSTLocation: Virtual via Zoom Please RSVP to receive Zoom details and supplementary reading materials. Indigenous Literacies and Storytelling Please join us for this special LLINK: Literacy & Libraries: Investigating New Knowledges event featuring Dr. Sara Davidson from Simon Fraser University, an Assistant Professor […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair

    Please join us in congratulating Dr. Candace Galla on being appointed as a UNESCO Co-Chair, alongside Drs. Shannon Bischoff and Mary Encabo Bischoff at Purdue University Fort Wayne (Indiana, USA). The official location of this UNESCO Chair is Purdue Fort Wayne. UNESCO, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, is a network that brings […] Read More

  • Congratulations to Megan on receiving the 2025 President’s Staff Award

    Please join us in congratulating Megan Wilson on receiving the 2025 President’s Staff Award for Wellbeing! These awards are presented annually by the university to recognize staff members who demonstrate outstanding achievement and excellence within the UBC community. Megan Wilson (she/her) fosters a culture of wellbeing within the Department of Language and Literacy Education and […] 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

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)
“That poem was pretty wild to me”: On personal safety and precarious moments in teacher candidates’ responses to sexual assault narratives. Research in the Teaching of English, 59(3), 311-339. https://doi.org/10.58680/rte2025593311
Moore, A. (2025)
"We're not kids!": Aged authority in elementary students' classroom peer interactions. Research on Children and Social Interaction 9(1), 77-103. https://doi.org/10.3138/rcsi-2025-0005
Corella, M. (2025)
Metacognitive Instruction and Oral Corrective Feedback: Impacts on Metacognitive Awareness and Speaking Accuracy in Learners of English as a Foreign Language. RELC Journal, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882251370760
Kim, T., & Whitehead, G. E. (2025)

News & Events

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Carl Ruest
Oct 07, 2025

Critical Conversation with Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe Hart
Oct 03, 2025

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

Public Talk: Maddalena Vavassori
Oct 02, 2025

REACH Workshop: Multiscalar approaches to ethnographic research in applied linguistics: Focal activities, discourse, and analyses
Oct 01, 2025

Scholarship Stories: Dr. Guofang Li
Sep 30, 2025

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