Dr. Melanie Wong
Assistant Professor of Teaching
Program Advisor for the Online MEd in Literacy Education
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Arts-Based Research
Bilingual/multilingual education
Digital literacies
Literacy education
Modern language and heritage language education
Multiliteracy and multimodality
Online pedagogies
Teacher Education
Biography
Melanie is an educator who is passionate about K-12 education and teaching future teachers. Her research interests includes K-12 students, ELLs, and technology-enhanced classrooms.
Melanie has extensive experience teaching in a K-12 context including as an elementary teacher, technology teacher, Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) Learning Leader, English Language Learner (ELL) Learning Leader and most recently a system ELL Strategist for the Calgary public school district. She loves mentoring teachers and being a part of their journey into the profession. She is also passionate about connecting research with practice. She is a member of the Artem Research Collective.
Projects
An Ethnographic Case Study Elementary English Language Learners in an Online Classroom Current
2022 – present
Mapping Our Communities: Shifting Towards Place-Based Pedagogies in the Primary Years Cohort Completed
2021 – 2022
Dancing through the Pandemic: Experiences of Remote Learning in a K-12 Ballet School Current
2021 – present
(Re)thinking Medical Interviews Current
2020 – present
An Ethnographic Case Study of Elementary English Language Learners in a Technology-Enhanced Classroom Completed
2015 – 2020
The Academic Discourse Socialization of PhD Students in Canadian University Completed
2013 – 2020
Awards & Honours
Killiam Graduate Assistant Teaching Award (2014-2015)
Selected Publications
