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Research

• 2025
• Plurality, linguistic justice, and decolonization: Addressing current issues in teaching first-year writing to multilingual learners. Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator, Anita Chaudhuri (University of British Columbia). SSHRC Connection Grant, $15,815
• 2022-2025
• Latin American Nikkei Japanese in Japanese Society: languages, migration, otherness, and plurilingual pedagogy. Principal Investigator; Co-Investigators, Mariko Himeta (Daito Bunka University), Satoko Shao-Kobayashi (Chiba University). ´óÏó´«Ã½ Faculty of Education FIRE (Funds for International Research in Education) Award, $7,000
• 2021-2024
• Integrating Critical Media Literacies in Plurilingual & Pluricultural Teacher Education. Co-Investigator; Principal Investigator, Angel Lin (The Education University of Hong Kong). SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, $200,000
• 2018-2023 - please click on the link to see our materials sharing site:  
• Impact Assessment: Academic performance of FAL-Required students. Carried out in collaboration with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Institutional Research and Planning to compare students required to take Foundations of Academic Literacy (FAL X99) and those exempt (2007-2018). We compared 6-year retention rates (16,241 students), 2-year retention rates (28,599 students), GPA performance on lower division writing-intensive courses (84,847 students), and upper division writing intensive courses (50,189 students), focusing on 4 modes of assessment.
• 2016–2017
• Plurilingualism as an asset for learning across the disciplines in Canadian higher education. Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator, Danièle Moore
  ´óÏó´«Ã½ VPR Bridging Grant, $10,000 
• 2010–2013
• A qualitative study of academic literacies and multilingual first year students in an English-medium university: Social and demographic change, multiliteracies, and institutional response
  Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator, Danièle Moore
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, $57,525
• 2009–2010
• A qualitative study of the multiple literacies of multilingual undergraduate students in higher education: From the social to the academic.
  SSHRC 4a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Vice President Research Grant, $9,719.98
• 2006–2008
  Foundational academic literacy development: A pilot study of learner contexts and perceptions of progress
  President’s Research Grant, ´óÏó´«Ã½, $10,000
  
• 2006–2008
• Writing through transitions: Understanding the needs of learners writing in English as an additional language at ´óÏó´«Ã½
  Learning and Instructional Development Centre, ´óÏó´«Ã½, $6,000

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