Research Interests & Abilities

• second language education
• bilingual education
• French immersion programs
• bilingualism
• multilingualism
• literacy
• biliteracy
• immigration

Major Research Activities

Recent publications and research activities, funded by internal and external agencies, including a 1999 SSHRC Standard Grant and 1996, 2000 Metropolis Project Grants, are in the field of applied linguistics and focus on the language socialization and literacy practices of bilingual and multilingual youth at home and school.

CLLRNet Research Projects

• A sociocultural investigation of language learning in the intermediate grades: Children of diverse origins in English medium and French immersion classrooms.

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