Zoe Lam
Lecturer
Cantonese, bilingualism, multilingualism, Chinese, Chinese diaspora, Chinese Canadian, language maintenance, language education
Raymond Pai
Lecturer of Cantonese Language and Culture
Cantonese, Cantonese learning, Cantonese teaching, language and culture, heritage language, language pedagogy, language identity, language ideology, language testing, language technology
Dr. Amanda Cardoso
Lecturer
Accents, sociolinguistics, phonetics, dialects, accent bias, perception of accents, vowel pronunciation, English in British Columbia, English in the United Kingdom
Kyle Frackman, PhD
Associate Professor
German, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Sweden, Finland, literature, film, cinema, theory, cultural studies, gender, sexuality, social justice, teaching, East Germany
Rose-Marie Déchaine
Associate Professor
Native American languages, Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe, French / English bilingualism policy, formal linguistics, generative grammar (Chomsky), West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo), Nigerian languages, literacy vs. oralcy, language planning re: French, Indigenous languages
Henry Davis, PhD
Professor
First Nations languages, Salish languages, language survival, language education, Wakashan languages
Sima Godfrey, MA
Associate Professor, French
French culture, fashion and French culture, North American reception of French culture, French, teaching French in Canada and U.S., French literature, European Studies
Thomas Salumets, PhD
Associate Professor
German and Estonian, theory, figurational sociology and Norbert Elias
Patricia A. Shaw
Professor
Founding Chair, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
First Nations languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, community capacity-building for language sustainability, archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages
Monique Bournot-Trites, BA, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Second language acquisition, French as a second language, French immersion, Core French, French schools, learning content in second language, language assessment, second language literacy (reading especially, intecultural competence, teacher education in second language
Ian Hill, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rhetoric, persuasion, argumentation, technology, weapons, interrogation, political economy, war rhetoric, conflict rhetoric, dissent, mass movements
Margot Leigh Butler
Academic Director
Vancouver Downtown Eastside, community education, free community education with Downtown Eastside residents who experience marginalization, poverty, addictions and education, community-university relationships, representation, cultural studies, critical and creative pedagogy, interdisciplinarity, site-specific art, collectives, implicatedness, activism
Bryan Gick
Professor
Phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages
Janet Werker
Professor and Canada Research Chair
Infancy, speech perception, early language acquisition, bilingualism, baby development, infant development
Andrew Scales
Academic Director, English Language Institute
English Language teaching and learning, English language school administration
Paul G. Stanwood
Professor Emeritus
English Renaissance and 17th century literature, English Reformation and church history, Edmund Spenser, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Metaphysical Poets, John Milton, early modern devotional poetry and prose, T.S. Eliot, opera
Eva-Marie Kroller, PhD
Professor
Canadian literature, comparative literature, travel writing, cultural semiotics (for example, the new Canadian embassy in Berlin)
Joseph P. Stemberger
Professor
Linguistics, phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, slips of the tongue, first language acquisition, child language
Laurel J. Brinton
Professor
Modern English grammar, history of the English language, English usage, English dictionaries, pragmatics of English,
discourse markers, language change, computers and language study