Research Interests

  • The education of linguistically and culturally diverse students in contexts of migration, multiculturalism and multilingualism
  • Second/additional language pedagogy
  • Literacy education
  • Curriculum studies and teacher development
  • Linguistic and cultural diversity and equity in ECE, K-12, and post-secondary educational contexts
  • Language and literacy education in urban and rural school contexts
  • The education of EAL/ELL students in K-12 classrooms
  • Language development through embodied, creative and collaborative pedagogies
  • Indigenous language revitalization
  • Embodied and multimodal classroom pedagogies
  • Multiliteracies
  • Digital literacies
  • Transcultural literacies
  • Trans ‘lingual’ pedagogies
  • Language and literacy assessment
  • Theatre/drama in education
  • Culturally-relevant and community-based classroom practices
  • The use of collaborative, community-engaged and digital methodologies in research
  • Participatory ethnography