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You're kindly invited to our next virtual Plurilingual Lab Speaker Series event with Dr. Steve Marshall of Simon Fraser University.

Plurilingualism Across the Disciplines in Canadian Higher Education: From Students鈥� Practices to Instructors鈥� Dilemmas

In this talk, I will present data from research that I have carried out into plurilingualism in Canadian higher education over the last ten years. I will begin by clarifying what I mean when I use the term 鈥減lurilingual鈥� as an analytical lens in my research. I will then move onto the findings from various research projects that I have carried out in the Greater Vancouver area. I will begin by showing examples of students鈥� plurilingual communication strategies: for example, classroom recordings of plurilingual interactions as students negotiate and mediate learning, and examples of students鈥� note-taking in which they combine languages. I will then show data from semi-structured interviews with students and their instructors. In the student interviews, participants describe how and why they use languages other than English in and around their learning. I will then move on to instructors, looking at how they describe and understand their students鈥� practices, as well as the real challenges that instructors face in terms of how best to respond pedagogically to classes in which students use multiple languages as tools for learning.

Bio: I am a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. My research focuses on plurilingualism and academic literacy in Canadian higher education 鈥� in first-year academic literacy courses and across multiple disciplines, e.g., Applied Sciences, Political Science, Business, and Linguistics. I have published research findings in various peer-reviewed journals and books, and am also the author of the Advance in Academic Writing Series published by Pearson, ELT Canada.

When: March 31, 2022 (Thursday)

Time: 12pm-1:30pm (EST, Montreal)

Mode of delivery: synchronous via Zoom