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- Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education, UBC
- Education
- PhD (Second Language Acquisition), U Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI, 2005
- MA (TESOL), U Washington, Seattle, WA, 1999
- BA (American Studies), Wesleyan U, Middletown, CT, 1991
- Academic Awards
- 2007 Promising Researcher Award, NCTE
- 2003 Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Spencer Foundation
- 2002 Russell N. Campbell Doctoral Dissertation Award, TIRF
Research
- K-12 ESL/ELL
- Identity and L2 learning/teaching
- Language ideologies
- Talk-in-interaction
- Discourse analysis
- Narrative analysis
- Qualitative research methodology
Teaching
- ESL/ELL methods
- Language/content integration
Graduate supervision
- Supervision/co-supervision:
- Ph.D: 10 students
- M.A: 1 student
- M.Ed: 35+ students
- Thesis committees (non-supervisory):
- Ph.D: 18 students
- M.A: 14 students
Administration/service
- ALSED Graduate Program Coordinator (2022-date)
- Deputy Head of Department (2013-2015)
- 2014 LLED Department Self-Study (2013-2014)
- Academic Director, UBC/Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange Program (2008-2009)
- Convener and Coordinator, LLED Research Seminar Series (2007-2015)
- Convener and Coordinator, LLED Apprenticeship Seminar Series (2007-2009)
- Many faculty hiring committees, 2 chaired
- Member/chair, 15+ Dept/Faculty/University committees