Venue: Online via Zoom
Presenters Tolkyn Khazhimukhan, Sadia Shad, Dr. Meike Wernicke
Zoom Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61103398405?pwd=eWFEVkptSWp6SVM3OVdRVGNqNzd3UT09
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What role does language play in your graduate studies?
In this graduate research seminar, we explore the role of language in educational access and success (Piller, 2016). What are the implications for a commitment to values of inclusion and equity when English-only practices tend to be privileged in many higher education contexts and in academia more generally (Liddicoat, 2016)? Given that language mediates the way we understand and interact in this world, how do the linguistic resources we draw on to construct meaning and generate knowledge in our professional lives matter?
In this session, LLED PhD candidate Sadia Shad and MA student Tolkyn Khazhimukhan will lead the discussion of these and other related questions in connection with their own graduate research. Sadia’s work focuses on language ideology and standardization-related injustices including their impact on “non-native” speakers’ (il)legitimacy. Tolkyn is examining language policy and different orientations toward the role of language in education. After a short presentation on this topic, participants will have an opportunity to engage with these questions with others. We hope the discussion will open new areas of potential research and practice by highlighting decolonial options of academic praxis.
Tolkyn Khazhimukhan is an MA student at the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Her research interests involve interculturality, TESL, discourse analysis, language policy, and literacy education. This presentation is part of her work as a research assistant with Meike Wernicke for a SSHRC Explore Grant focusing on the role of language in the internationalization of higher education.
Sadia Shad is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Her major research areas include language teacher identity/legitimacy, interculturality in language education, and language ideology. Sadia is also interested in critical pedagogy, and discourse analytic approaches to teaching, and research. This presentation is part of her work as a research assistant for a SSHRC Explore Grant focusing on the role of language(s) in higher education.
Dr. Meike Wernicke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Her research in second language teacher education focuses on French language teacher professional development and teacher identity and includes research interests in intercultural education, bi-/multilingual language policy and discourse analytic research methodologies. Meike’s current research projects focus on teacher professionalization and the integration of intercultural approaches in second language education, with an emphasis on decolonizing and plurilingual pedagogies.