Current Graduate Students
Aisha Adebayo
#plurilingualism #digital storytelling
#language revitalization
Aisha is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Her research interests include plurilingualism/translanguaging, digital storytelling for language revitalization and heritage language policy.
Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Bale
Social Media: Find Aisha on LinkedIn
Leanne (Rempel) Adegbonmire
#multilingual education #refugee education #language friendly pedagogy
Leanne is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: She is interested in the intersection of multilingual education and educational technology, especially through the lens of the teacher.
Thesis: Creating Language Friendly Classrooms: Changes in Teacher Pedagogy Through Participation in a Virtual Community of Practice
Supervisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstmann
Research Projects: ESCAPE projects
Social Media: Find Leanne on LinkedIn
Yaseen Ali
#intercultural humility and responsibility #English nativespeakerism
Yaseen is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Framing post-secondary environments as linguistic contact zones, Yaseen is interested in what is possible when both English-dominant and English as an additional language (EAL) students are mutually positioned to anticipate and share “the amorphous, ongoing, moment-by-moment negotiation of English that is actually its daily reality” (Alistair Pennycook, 2008). Responding to Yukio Tsuda’s prompt for educators to advocate for the right to language and equality in communication for all students (2014), he considers how critical language awareness about the boundless varieties of Lingua Franca English (LFE) can improve students’ learning experiences in classrooms and labs by challenging the notion of an exclusionary “standard” as a benchmark for successful collaboration.
Supervisor: Dr. Julie Kerekes
Social Media: Find Yaseen on LinkedIn
Reshara Alviarez
#plurilingualism #Creole languages #migrant learning spaces #educational accessibility #language friendly school
Reshara is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Her doctoral research is focused on promoting accessibility to education through supporting innovative language-in-education policies that celebrate the linguistic and cultural diversity of all children in Trinidad and Tobago.
Thesis: A Language Friendly Approach: Bridging the linguistic divide in education in Trinidad & Tobago
Supervisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Katherine Anderson
#complexity theory #second language acquisition/development #cognitive linguistics
Katherine is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: She is interested in second language writing, and in particular how syntax and genre competence develop within communities of practice. Using a Complex Dynamic Systems framework, Katherine researches how language change can be represented and contextualized, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Thesis: Professional Identity as a Shaper of Lexicogrammatical Development in EAL Engineering Students (working title)
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Rehner
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Thi Chang Duyen is a graduate student in the C&P program.
Research interests: She is currently interested in language teaching and assessment, technology assisted language education and mindfulness in language learning.
Thesis: Using guided mediation in English language class (working title)
Social Media: Find Thi Chang Duyen on LinkedIn
Rui Dong Chen
#second language writing #composition pedagogy #translanguaging #multilingualism
Rui Dong is a MA student in the LLE program.
Supervisor: Dr. Guy Allen
Research Projects: On-board@OISE: A Multi-Step Program for Developing Academic Skills for Success and Enhancing International Student Integration and Engagement (Graduate Assistant)
Social Media: Find Rui Dong on LinkedIn
Claire Costaris
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Claire is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Her research interests include CEFR-informed instruction and the development of sociolinguistic competence by French as a second language learners in the Canadian/Ontarian context.
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Rehner
Research Projects: Adult Language Learning in a Transnational Context: Towards a Migrant-Centric View of Translingual Agency and Social Integration (Graduate Assistant)
Elena Danilina
#plurilingualism #language learner autonomy #English for academic purposes #educational technologies
Elena is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Thesis: The role of web-based language tools in the development of learner autonomy among students of English Academic Program in a Canadian university
Supervisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstmann
Jennifer Chinenye Emelife
#critical literacy #digital literacy
#conflict and education
Jennifer is is a PhD student in the C&P program.
Research interests: Her research challenges the dominant discourse on forced migration and displacement while studying alternative ways of engaging youth with displaced/refugee backgrounds to portray them as humans with agency, desire, pride, and beauty.
Thesis: Dreams and displacement: positioning youth with displaced backgrounds as knowledge creators (working title)
Supervisor: Dr. Rob Simon
Social Media: Find Jennifer on LinkedIn
S. Emre Ergut
#mother tongue education #bi/multi/plurilingualism #language policy #Turkish as a first/second language
Emre is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: He is interested in the education of students with an immigrant background and their multilingual experience. More specifically, his research includes teaching Turkish as a mother tongue/heritage language to bilingual learners who have an immigration history.
Social Media: Find Emre on LinkedIn
Leila Farzinpur
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Leila Farzinpur is a PhD Candidate in the LLE program.
Research Interests: L2 Writing Challenges, Academic Writing Identity, L2 Writing Assessment, Developing Teaching Materials for L2 Learners, Academic Writing Pedagogy, L2 Writing Development
Thesis Topic: Academic Writer Identity Construction and Awareness in the Canadian Academic Context: The Experience of Multilingual Student Writers at the Undergraduate Level
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Rehner
Gabrielle Forget
#French as a second language #French Immersion #Sociolinguistic Competence
Gabrielle is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: She is interested in French as a second language (FSL) teaching and learning in the Canadian context, and more specifically, French immersion (FI) programs in Ontario with a focus on aspects such as student goals and motivations and the development of sociolinguistic competence of learners.
Thesis: Ontario French Immersion Students’ Perspectives: Connecting Learners’ Goals, Sociolinguistic Development, and Ongoing Enrolment (working title)
Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Rehner
Social Media: Find Garibelle on Twitter @Gab_Forget
Sudhashree Girmohanta
#heritage language #immigrants #qualitative research
Sudhashree is a LLE student in the PhD program.
Research interests: She is interested in supporting immigrant families to transmit their heritage language to the next generation.
Supervisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Research Projects: NOWplay, The Escape Projects (Graduate Assistant)
Social Media: Find Sudhashree on Twitter @SGirmohanta
Christopher Gradin
#heritage language learning #intergenerational communication #plurilingualism
Christopher Gradin is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research Interests: His research focuses on the role of Japanese as a heritage language in the intergenerational communication of Japanese Canadians, particularly those who have a family history of internment, dispossession, and relocation. Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice, he investigates changes in linguistic habitus across generations to determine the impact of language loss on Japanese Canadian Identity. He asks the questions, to what ends are heritage language programs designed, and how can heritage language education serve to reconcile the specific traumas of the past and post-national identities of the present?
Supervisor: Dr. Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman
Research Projects: the Binogi Project; The Language Friendly School (under supervision of Dr. Le Pichon-Vostman) and the Heritage Language Project; Supporting English Language Learners (under supervision of Dr. Jeff Bale)
Find Christopher on Twitter @chrisgradin or on LinkedIn.
Danielle Hunter
#CEFR #action-oriented approach #second language education
Danielle is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Danielle’s area of focus includes the CEFR and the Action-oriented Approach. She is also interested more generally in Second Language Education.
Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Research Projects: Advancing Agency in Language Education (Graduate Assistant)
Social Media: Find Danielle on LinkedIn
Sarah Jones
#phatic communion #discourse analysis #second language pragmatics.
Sarah is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: She is interested in LX pragmatics, emergent language norms in multilingual contexts, and poststructural approaches to talk-in-interaction.
Supervisor: Dr. Julie Kerekes
Research Projects: Investigating migrant agency and resistance in transnational and translingual spaces (Graduate Assistant)
Micheal Koslowski
#plurilingualism #translanguaging
Michael is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Plurilingualism, Translanguaging, and the benefits and challenges of these emerging approaches to language teaching and learning.
Thesis: Deconstructing the Binary: Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Immersion and Plurilingual Policies and Practices in Japanese and Canadian Universities
Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Research Projects: lincdireproject.org (Graduate Assistant)
Social Media: Find Michael on LinkedIn and Twitter @michaelnkoslow1
Lisa Lackner
#English/German as a second language #language policy #raciolinguistics
Lisa is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Lisa is interested in the way English as a second language learning is organised in K-12 education in Toronto. In her work she explores how ESL policy is appropriated in secondary schools and how these policies continuously work to reinforce the dominant position of English within push-in and pull-out ESL programs.
Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Bale
Social Media: Find Lisa on LinkedIn and Twitter @lisa_lackner
Mingyi Li
#language education policy #raciolinguistic ideologies #heritage language education
Mingyi is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Supervisor: Dr. Jeff Bale
Research Projects: SSHRC-funded Language, Race, and Regulating Difference: The Heritage Languages Program in Ontario, 1977–1987. PI: Dr. Jeff Bale
SSHRC-funded China Canada Reciprocal Learning Project PI: Dr. Michael Connelly & Dr. Shijing Xu
Social Media: Find Mingyi on LinkedIn and on Twitter @mingyi0801_li
Zeinab Majed
#English as a Second Language #Translanguaging #Educational Psychology
Zeinab is a MEd student in the LLE program.
Research Interests: Her research interest focuses on the Translanguage Theory, the Sociocultural Theory, Second language Acquisition, as well as assessment in reading and writing with k-12 in a classroom setting (longitudinal study).
Social Media: Find Zeinab on LinkedIn
Macaulay Mauro
Macaulay is a MT student in the CTL program.
Research interests: Their research project is born out of trans youth currently being at the front of media culture wars, and explores literacy resources, supports and pedagogical strategies used to help trans and gender creative students talk about their identities.
Thesis: Tools for Trans Youth to Tell their Own Stories
Hamidreza Moeiniasl
Hamid Reza Moeiniasl is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research Interests: Language assessment, Technology-assisted assessment, Language Teacher Education, L2 Reading, Teaching and assessment of critical thinking
Thesis Topic: Investigating the Potentials of Computerized Dynamic Assessment in Supporting Critical Thinking Skills
Karam Noel
#assessment #plurilingualism #educationalpolicy
Karam is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: He is interested in language assessment and plurilingual/action-based pedagogies to language education.
Research projects: LINCDIRE, LITE, ESCAPE projects (research assistant)
Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Social Media: Find Karam on LinkedIn.
Amy Christine Parker
Stephanie Shuler
Stephanie Shuler is a PhD candidate in CTL.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) award winner (2015).
Research Interests: Multiple literacies, thriving, alternative and holistic education, leisure studies, inclusion, peace building and mothering.
As a social entrepreneur, Stephanie is the co-founder of an international social design initiative pursuing the co-creation of a self-sustainable ecovillage. Stephanie has conducted research that investigates: Thriving – a hierarchical values analysis.
Thesis Topic: What are parents’ narratives about their experience with their child’s language-based learning disability?
Supervisor: Dr. Karyn Cooper
Guadalupe Sánchez Sandoval
#plurilingual education #CLIL #ecology of languages #content and language teacher collaboration
Guadalupe is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: Supporting plurilingualism in mainstream courses in Mexican public higher education.
Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Rebecca Schmor
#plurilingualism #teacher identity #language education
Rebecca is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: She is interested in the relationship between plurilingual teacher identity and linguistically/culturally inclusive practices in language education.
Thesis: Plurilingual Identities of English for Academic Purposes Instructors: A Critical Pluriethnography (working title)
Supervisor: Dr. Enrica Piccardo
Social Media: Find Rebecca on LinkedIn
Andre Scholze
#plurilingualism #teacher beliefs #language teacher education
Andre is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research interests: His research focuses on second language teachers’ beliefs about plurilingualism and their experiences welcoming language and cultural diversity into the L2 classroom.
Thesis: Plurilingualism in Practice: A Narrative of the Backgrounds, Beliefs, and Experiences of Second Language Teachers Integrating Language and Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
Supervisor: Dr. Normand Labrie
Mohammad Reza Shalizar
Mohammadreza is a PhD student in the LLE program.
Research Interests: Second language writing development, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), CEFR, Multilingual writing.
Anastassiya Yudintseva
#virtual reality #second language aquisition #affordances
Anastassiya is a PhD candiadate in the C&P program.
Research interests: Anastassiya is concerned about the underlying principles that may be used to pave the way for inclusive second language learning design through leveraging immersive Virtual Reality. My research explores complex relationship between technology, pedagogy, language and culture to advance “social justice through human-centred design” (KMDI, n.d., para.
Thesis: Learning in Context: immersive Virtual Reality for Willingness to Communicate in English as a Second Language
Supervisor: Dr. Jim Hewitt
Research Projects: Pepper
Social Media: Find Anastassiya on LinkedIn