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Past Grad Talks

Here is a list of Grad Talks presented in our lab:

2024

  • Plurilingual-pluricultural competence development while abroad: History and evaluation of two programs, by Sophia Minnillo (University of California at Davis). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on December 12, 2024.
  • Investigating plurilingual teacher identities and practices: A multimodal pluriethnography, by Rebecca Schmor (OISE/University of Toronto). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on November 7, 2024.
  • The role of feedback in higher education through comparisons with exemplars to enhance learner autonomy and challenge power dynamics in assessment, by Karina Cicero(University College London). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on April 4, 2024.
  • Indexing caste: Telugu linguistic registers and the Dalit skin, by Kavya Harshitha Jidugu (Queens' University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on March 11, 2024.
  • Understandings of culture in higher education of world language studies in Australia, by Mobina Sahraee Juybari (Monash University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on February 26, 2024.
  • The Vedda language of Indigenous Adivasi of Dambana in Sri Lanka: A creole or something else?, by Nimasha Malalasekera (Université de Montréal). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on January 18, 2024.

2023

  • Metaphorical approach to semantic elaboration of “baliw” and “búang” in the Filipino language, by Krisnah Ann M. Tan (University of the Philippines Diliman). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on December 14, 2023.
  • “English as a pedestal:” The language attitudes and practices of African migrant bilingual parents and early years professionals in the UK, by Denise Amankwah (University of Essex). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on November 9, 2023.
  • CLIL with a plan: A lesson planning tool integrating content and language goals in a vocational CLIL context in Austria, by Tatjana Bacovsky-Novak (University of Vienna). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on April 6, 2023.
  • Walking with the community: Decolonizing research for exploring land-based literacies in rural Colombia, by Tatiana Becerra (McGill University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on February 16, 2023.
  • Integrating content and language learning in the bilingual History class: A design-based research study, by Silvia Bauer-Marschallinger (University of Vienna). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on January 12, 2023.

2022

  • The untapped knowledge in language education: A collective portrait of transnational parents, by Emma Chen (University of Saskatchewan). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on December 8, 2022.
  • Cognitive control in bilingual language processing: How bilingual language experience matters, by Xuran Han (University College London). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on November 2, 2022.
  • “But it doesn’t really have to do with bilingualism”: Family language policies in transnational families of bilingual autistic children, by Anna Metrevelli (Stockholm University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on April 24, 2022.
  • Language Attitudes in the Laz community of Turkey, by Nese Demir (University of California, San Diego). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on April 1, 2022.
  • French immersion in Canadian dual-track schools: Breaking down the barriers, by Roula Daher (University of Calgary). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on February 14, 2022.

2021

  • Critical thinking and learning English as a second language, by Rana Haidar (OISE/University of Toronto). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on January 17, 2021.
  • Learning multiple L2 syntactic structures in a chat-based syntactic priming task, Marion Coumel (Warwick University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on December 2, 2021.
  • The process of classifying students in the reception class in Montreal, Roberta de Oliveira Soares (Université de Montréal). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on November 4, 2021.
  • Perspectives on potential outcomes for Tamazight language-in-education in response to Moroccan framework law 51.17, by Obi Eneh (Columbia University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on April 15, 2021.
  • French immersion for refugees in Canada: Exploring inclusion and language learning, by Stephen Davies (University of Regina). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on March 11, 2021.
  • Teaching Irish as an L2 using CLIL in an English-medium/majority language elementary school: Obstacles and opportunities, by Nóra Ni Bheaglaoich (Mary Immaculate College). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on February 11, 2021.
  • The impact of a content and language integrated learning approach on teachers’ own language confidence, by Pádraig Fahey (Mary Immaculate College). Plurilingual Lab Gad Talk on January 26, 2021.
  • Action research amidst a global pandemic – Is my research on the right trajectory?, by Sarah Ní Dhuinnin (Mary Immaculate College). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on January 14, 2021.

2020

  • Second language pronunciation instruction: Moving away from the segmental/suprasegmental debate, by Châu Nguyen (Concordia University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on December 3, 2020.
  • English language policy and planning in Bangladesh: My lived experience, by Rubina Khanam (University of Regina). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on November 5, 2020.
  • Writing beyond the predominant conventions, by Rui Dong Chen (Simon Fraser University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on October 15, 2020.
  • The relationship between interactional fluency features and L2 speakers’ perceptions of peer fluency, by Tzu-Hua Chen (Concordia University). Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on October 8, 2020.
  • Colonial and Indigenous language policies at McGill University: Beliefs, mechanisms, and practices, by Charles Joseph O’Conner. Plurilingual Lab Grad Talk on October 1, 2020.
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