Andreea Cervatiuc

Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc

Associate Professor of Teaching

Program Coordinator of the Online MEd in TESL

Biography

Dr. Andreea Cervatiuc is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and the Program Coordinator and Developer of the Online Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). This is a modern, primarily asynchronous, state-of-the art online program. Andreea also coordinates multi-section courses in the Bachelor of Education program.

Her scholarship focuses on online education, curriculum development, additional language learning and teaching, language assessment, multilingualism and multilingual education, and additional language vocabulary acquisition and teaching.

Andreea is an expert in online education and has developed and taught many asynchronous, synchronous, and blended courses. Prior to joining UBC, she was a Research Associate and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calgary, where she had developed and taught several online and on-campus graduate and undergraduate courses.

Andreea received several prestigious awards, including the TESOL Award for Distinguished Research, which is the most important international award in the area of teaching English to speakers of other languages. Her award-winning article titled Curriculum meta-orientations in the language instruction for newcomers to Canada program was featured in TESOL Connections. She is also the recipient of the International Award for Outstanding TESOL Article, and of a Teaching Excellence Award.

Awards & Honours

2024 Best Presentation Award at the International Conference on Linguistics, Language Teaching and Learning

2013 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research from the TESOL International Association

2013 Faculty of Education Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Calgary

2009 International Award for Outstanding TESOL Article from the International English Education Research Association

Courses

LLED 526 Second Language Assessment: Conceptual and Empirical Approaches

LLED 572 Theory and Research in Teaching English as a Second Language

LLED 573 Theories of Second Language Acquisition

LLED 590 Graduating Project

LLED 565 Learning and Teaching Vocabulary in an Additional Language 

LLED 479 The Education of Immigrant Students

LLED 489A Applied Linguistics for Teachers

LLED 489B Applied Linguistics for Teachers

LLED 478A Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

LLED 478B Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

LLED 360 Classroom Discourses and Teaching English Language Learners

Selected Publications

Books

Cervatiuc, A. (2009).

Successful Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. Germany, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

Cervatiuc, A. (2006).

Don Quixote – Bridge between myths/Don Quijote – Punte intre Mituri. Romania, Bucharest: Floarea Albastra.

Refereed Book Chapters

Cervatiuc, A. (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. (2024)

The social dimension of language assessment. In J. I. Liontas (Ed.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching. New York, NY Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1043

Cervatiuc, A. (2022)

Asynchronous and synchronous online TESOL Education. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching (pp. 1-7). New York, NY: Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1009

Cervatiuc, A. (2022)

The multilingual turn in TESOL. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching (pp. 1-7). New York, NY: Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt1010

Cervatiuc, A. (2019)

Successful Design and Management of Asynchronous Discussion Forums in Online Higher Education. In S. Keengwe & K. Kungu (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education. Hershey PA: IGI Global.

Cervatiuc, A. (2019)

Analyzing and understanding interlanguage. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching (pp. 1-12). New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0638

Cervatiuc, A. (2018).

Incidental learning of vocabulary. In J. I. Liontas, T. International Association, & M. DelliCarpini (Eds.), The TESOL encyclopedia of language teaching (pp. 1-6). New York, NY: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118784235.eelt0819

Ricento, T., & Cervatiuc, A. (2010)

Language minority rights and educational policy in Canada. In J. Petrovic (Ed.), International perspectives on bilingual education: Policy, practice, and controversy (pp. 656-680). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

Refereed Articles

Cervatiuc, A. & Ricento, T. (2012). Curriculum meta-orientations in the language instruction for newcomers to Canada program. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 24(2), p. 17-31.

Cervatiuc, A. (2009). Identity, good language learning, and adult immigrants in Canada. Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 8 (4), p. 254-271.

Cervatiuc, A. (2008). Deconstructing the environment: The case of adult immigrants to Canada learning English. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, 2(2), p. 67-86.

Cervatiuc, A. (Jan. 2008). ESL vocabulary acquisition: Target and approach. The Internet TESL Journal XIV (1), p. 6-11.

Cervatiuc, A. (2007). Assessing second language vocabulary knowledge. International Forum of Teaching and Studies, 3 (3), p. 40-47.

Cervatiuc, A. (2007). Personality characteristics associated with successful second language acquisition. Philologica Jassyensia, 3 (2), p. 201-211.

Research Reports

Ricento, T. & Cervatiuc , A. (2010). Linguistic and Cultural Barriers to Refugees’ Access to Medical and Social Services. Phase 1 Summary Report. Calgary: University of Calgary.

Ricento, T., Cervatiuc, A., MacMillan, F., & Massoudi, S. (2008). Insights into Funded ESL Programs. Report on the LINC Program. Calgary: University of Calgary.

Watt, D. & Cervatiuc, A. (2007). Benchmarking the English Language Proficiency (ELP) for the Engineering Profession. Final Report. Edmonton:  Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers.

Language Test

Roessingh, H. & Cervatiuc, A. (2008). Children’s Vocabulary Test. Calgary: University of Calgary.