PhD Students
Farhana Ruma Ahmed
Farhana Ruma Ahmed
BA & MA (University of Dhaka)
MA & TESL Cerfiticate (York University)
Research Interests: Issues of native/non-native speaker teachers/students in ESL/EFL setting, Second language acquisition (from theory to practice), Language, culture & identity, English as an international language, English for academic purposes.
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Mahmoud Alqazli
Mahmoud Alqazli
BA (Al Yarmouk University)
MA(University of Huddersfield)
MA (York University)
Research interests: Second/foreign language teaching and learning (TESL/TEFL),written genres and processes of L2 learners especially in health professions educations, English for specific purposes (ESP), Academic writing and Academic literacy, Occupation Specific Language Teaching/Training OSLT.
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Wid Altalhi
Wid Altalhi
BA (King Abdulaziz University)
MA (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Research interests: English as a foreign language (EFL); English for academic and specific purposes; language, culture, and identity; teachers’ identity; the role of teacher's beliefs in English learning classrooms; reflective teaching; teacher education.
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Medwin Azadi
Medwin Azadi
BA (Azad University of Tehran)
MA (Osmania University)
Research interests: (Variationist) (socio)linguistics, phon-etics/-ology, writing systems.
Current research focus: Vowel-height (and word-order) variation (in Tehran Persian).
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Sadia N. Banerjee
Sadia N. Banerjee
BA (Darul Ihsan University)
MA in ELT (University of Dhaka)
MA in TESL (University of British Columbia)
Research interests: Language policy and Planning in Post-colonial contexts, Identity and Language Teacher Education, Non-verbal Communication, English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
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Laura Baxter
Laura Baxter
BA (McGill University)
MA (University of Toronto)
Research interests: language variation and change, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, dialectology, historical linguistics. Current research focuses on dialects of Canadian English.
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Gavin Bembridge
Gavin Bembridge
BA & MA (York University)
Research interests: Distributed Morphology, Verbal Inflection (e.g. the subjunctive), Syntax and its interfaces (pragmatics/semantics), Mood and Modality, Romance (e.g. Spanish, Romanian)
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William Cook
William Cook
BA (University of Victoria)
MA (York University)
Research interests: language policy and planning, governmentality, neoliberalism, speaker mobility and migrant worker communities, identity and culture in Arab Gulf States, language access and speaker legitimacy, narrative analysis.
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Shaima Dashti
Shaima Dashti
BA (Kuwait University)
MA (California State University-Dominguez Hills)
Research interests: language assessment, second language assessment, teachers' classroom assessment practices.
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Mohammad Falhasiri
Mohammad Falhasiri
BA (Shiraz Azad University)
MA(Isfahad University)
Research interests: Written corrective feedback,Technology mediated language teaching and learning, Content based language teaching and learning, TESOL teacher education, writing development, and English for Academic and specific purposes.
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Yvette Freake
Yvette Freake
BA (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
MA (York University)
Research Interests: Language Attitudes and Ideologies, Perceptual Dialectoloy, Language Regard, Lexical Variation, Sociophonetics.
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Seran Gee
Seran Gee
BA (University of Manitoba)
MA (University of Toronto)
Research interests: HIV non-disclosure, Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Anthropology, Affect, Language and the Law.
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Lindsay Harding
Lindsay Harding
BA (Memorial University)
MA (University du Quebec)
Research interests: Variationist sociolinguistics, syntactic variation, second-language acquisition of French, language contact, language variation and change, Newfoundland Vernacular English, language and gender, and indexing of identity.
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Snezhana Harizanova
Snezhana Harizanova
BA & MA (South-West University, Bulgaria)
MA (York University)
Research interests: second/foreign language teaching and learning; explicit and implicit teaching; conscious and non-conscious learning; art and cognition; play and cognition. Main research area: Suggestopedia and its applicability in EAP
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Nicole Hildebrand-Edgar
Nicole Hildebrand-Edgar
BA & MA (University of Victoria)
Research interests: Sociolinguistics; Language variation and change; Language, culture, and identity; Language ideologies; Discourse analysis; Language, gender, and sexuality; Pragmatics.
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Bilingualism/multilingualism, bilinguals' language use, code-switching, Canadian French, applied linguistics and applied sociolinguistics, usage-based linguistics, sociosemantics, science communication
Ana-Maria Jerca
Ana-Maria Jerca
BA & BEd Gledon College (York University)
MA (York University)
Research interests: language and the law, language and gender, (critical) discourse analysis, pragmatics, semantics.
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Kris Pierre Johnston
Kris Pierre Johnston
BFA (University of Victoria)
TESL Certificate (Centennial)
MA (York University)
Research interests: the Community of Inquiry framework (CoI), John Dewey’s democratic learning and experiential learning, Community of Practice (CoP), Sociocultural Theory (SCT), Constructivist approaches to pedagogy, Social Learning Theory (SLT), Complexity Theory, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), computer-assisted language learning (CALL), Technology-mediated Language Learning (and Teaching) (TMLL), (online) learning communities (as well as teaching and research communities), computer-mediated communication (CMC), user experience (UX) design, educational technology design and development, virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) and their applications for online learning and teaching.
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Emilie LeBlanc
Emilie LeBlanc
BA (Saint Mary's University)
MA (University of Toronto)
Research interests: Acadian French, Canadian French, code-switching, dialectology (urban), phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, language variation and change.
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Alina Lemak
Alina Lemak
BSc & MA (University of Toronto)
Research interests: second language acquisition and efficacy of instruction.
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Sean Meades
Sean Meades
BA (Dalhousie University)
MA (York University)
Research interests: Language ecology, shift, and revitalization; ethnography of communication; language policy and planning; language, gender, and sexuality; indigenous thought; anti-racism and decolonization; narrative and place; critical discourse analysis.
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Jacqueline Peters
Jacqueline Peters
BA (Concordia University)
MA (University of Toronto)
Research interests: sociolinguistics; language and ethnicity; language and identity; linguistic ideologies; discourse analysis; sociology of language; ethnography of communication; inter-cultural communication. Specific language interests: Black Canadian English; African American English; Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole.
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Sara Potkonjak
Sara Potkonjak
BA (York University)
MA (Carleton University)
Research interests: English for academic and specific purposes, language, culture and identity, discourse analysis, English as an international language, second language education.
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Sibley Slinkard
Sibley Slinkard
BA (George Mason University)
MA (Old Dominion University)
Research interests: Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Violence, Ethnography.
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Vander Tavares
Vander Tavares
BA (Saint Mary's University)
TESL Certificate (Saint Mary's University)
MEd (York University)
Research interests: ESL teaching and learning; language, culture and identity; ESL students' academic experiences (social, cultural, linguistic, educational and inter/intra-personal); ESL and non-ESL peer interaction; post-secondary education; linguistic anthropology; discourse analysis and literary criticism; teacher research; reflective teaching.
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Kendall Vogh
Kendall Vogh
BA & MA (Université Laval)
Research interests: Bilingualism/multilingualism, bilinguals' language use, code-switching, Canadian French, applied linguistics and applied sociolinguistics, usage-based linguistics, sociosemantics, science communication.
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Dakota Wing
Dakota Wing
BA (University of Manitoba)
MA (Hofstra University)
Research Interests: Forensic linguistics, language and law, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, (interactional) sociolinguistics, pragmatics, systemic functional linguistics.
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Christine Wiseman
Christine Wiseman
BA, TESOL Certificate & MA (York University)
Research interests: Participatory education; critical pedagogy; adult ESL education; empowerment in learning
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MA Students
Eshita Awal
eshita86@yorku.ca
Kathryne Boreham
kat96@my.yorku.ca
Noah Brownstone
nh319196@yorku.ca
Michel Fiallo-Perez
mfiallo@yorku.ca
Hayley Goodwin
hgoodwin@yorku.ca
Anna Khalizeva
akha@yorku.ca
Yijun (Jerry) Li
yijunli@my.yorku.ca
Sabeen Lodhi
kamster1@my.yorku.ca
Matthew McCready
mccrea14@yorku.ca
Alison McGarry
mcgarrya@yorku.ca
Nickesha McGregor
ntm1978@my.yorku.ca
Tom Nittoly
tnittoly@yorku.ca
F. Olayinka Olaleye
flakey26@yorku.ca
Sonja-Liv Rannem
srannem@yorku.ca
Paul Ryan
paulryan@my.yorku.ca
J. Nate Shaftoe
shaftoen@yorku.ca
Ingrid Sikorcin
ingrid8@my.yorku.ca
Claire St George
cstg@yorku.ca
Martina Vassallo
vassallo@yorku.ca
Maryam Zokaei
mzokaei@yorku.ca
MA Returning Students
Alia AlSairafi
sairafi@my.yorku.ca
Areej Alattas
areej88@my.yorku.ca
Stephanie Mak
stmak168@my.yorku.ca
William Osmon
williamo@my.yorku.ca
Paul Saunders
ps06eg@yorku.ca