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Applied Linguistics

• A Critical Review of the TESOL Technology Standards: What are teachers' perceptions of these standards and the use of digital technology within the ESL/EFL Classroom

Applied Linguistics

• Using Authentic Materials to Develop L2 Students’ Listening Comprehension Skills

Applied Linguistics

• The Writing Centre as a Pedagogical Environment for Active Learning: Feedback in the Contact Zone

BSc (Iran University of Science and Technology)
MA (University of Tehran)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Written composition processes of L2 learners from cognitive and sociocultural theory (SCT) perspectives, sociocultural theory of mind, (critical) discourse analysis, text analysis, second language education (SLE) and acquisition (SLA); English for specific purposes (ESP).
• Dissertation: Cognition and Rhetoric in English Language Learners' Writing: A Developmental Study

• English - Arabic Code-switching in the speech of a Bahraini adolescent

Applied Linguistics

• The Hidden Benefits of a CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning Facility)

Linguistics

• The Effects of Attention and Prior Knowledge on Perception and Misperception and Misperceptions of Speech (Thesis)

• Linguistic Contributions to the Literacy Development of African American Vernacular English-speaking Children

Applied Linguistics

• Performing the Speech Act of Apology in Japanese as a Foreign Language

Linguistics

• The Movement Theory of Control in Iraqi Arabic: A Case of PRO or pro?

Applied Linguistics

• Communicative Competence: A Lack of Definitional and Theoretical Consistency

Linguistics

• The Semantic Derogation of Female

Applied Linguistics

• The Role of Emotions in Language Learning

BA (University of Waterloo)
TESL Certificate (Conestoga College)
MA & PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Adult second language acquisition, English for academic purposes: Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking, High-stakes assessments, pedagogy .
• Dissertation: Going Beyond the Text: The Inferencing Processes of Skilled Readers in L1 & L2 Across Reading Tasks

Linguistics

• Aspects of Dialect Standardization in Upper Austria

• An Investigation of Adverb Placement in Hindi

• The Importance of Markedness and Sonority in Syllable Theory and Syllabic Parsing: A Theoretical and Computational Linguistic Analysis

Applied Linguistics

• Journeying towards Content-Based ESL Instruction

• The Performative Construction of Gay Male Speech: A Comparative Approach

• The Phonologies of Old and Classical Portuguese, Spanish and Ladino, and the Development of Papiamentu

Linguistics

• The Valley Girl “Syndrome” Uptalk in Contemporary Toronto English

Linguistics

• Japanese-English Codeswitching: A Case Study of Three Sisters in Toronto

• The Linguistic Expression of Gender Identity: Albania's 'Sworn Virgins' (Thesis)

Linguistics

• Linguistic capital: Implications of language policy in Singapore'

Applied Linguistics

• Learning English Online: Options and Issues

Linguistics

• Resistance and Resilience: The Linguistic Construction of Non-Binary Transgender Identities

Linguistics

• Developing openness to otherness: A personal case study in intercultural communication

Applied Linguistics

• Exploring the Knowledge Base of Two Experienced ESL Teachers: A Case Study

Linguistics

• Frozen Morphology and Historical Agentivity in Pidgin Genesis

• ‘Uh, I do not have authority for that': Variation in courtroom discourse

Applied Linguistics

• Narrating the Immigrant Experience: A Case Study Investigating the Way in which One Woman Depicts Life as an Italian Immigrant in Canada

Applied Linguistics

• Technology-Mediated Strategies for Providing Feedback on Second Language Writing

• Critical Discourse Analysis of the Killing of Iraqi Civilians by the US Military During the 2003 Invasion of Iraq in the Toronto Area Print Media

• How the name of your lipstick reflects society’s notion of who you are: A linguistic analysis of cosmetic colour names

Linguistics

• Effects of vocalic context on sibilant perception in Japanese

• To Catch a Killer: An analysis of the discourse used by Toronto-based newspapers in framing the 2003 SARS epidemic

Linguistics

• The effects of prosody and production planning in external t-sandhi

Linguistics

• The Development of English Modal Auxiliaries: A Generative Examination

BA (University of Calgary)
MA (University of Alberta)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: spoken Ontario French, minority French in Canada, language variation and change, language contact (specifically French and English), diachronic linguistics, language maintenance and sociolinguistic theory.
• Dissertation: Grammatical Variation and Change in Spoken Ontario French: The Subjunctive Mood and the Expression of Future Temporal Reference

Linguistics

• The Discourse of Political Interviews with Barack Obama in Broadcast Journalism

Applied Linguistics

• Applying a Validity as Argument Approach to L2 DA: A Literature Review

• Singlish can say what?: A study of optional wh-in-situ Singaporean English

• Handshape and Contact Point Restrictions in American Sign Language

Linguistics

• Are things r and l?  All things r and l.  Perception of English r and l by Adult Native Speakers of Korean

Linguistics

• New Perspectives on Digraphia: A Framework for the Sociolinguistics of Writing Systems

Linguistics

• The European Union and the Creation of a European Identity

Linguistics

• English Language Spread in The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Linguistics

• Raising in Modern Standard Arabic

• The Phonology of Tone in Lubukusu Verbs

Applied Linguistics

• Getting to Know English, teaching English, and living English: My Language Learning Narrative

Applied Linguistics

• ESL/EFL Students' Attitudes to Native and Non-Native Speaker Teachers of English in Two University Settings (Thesis)

BA & MA (University of Dhaka)
MA & TESL Certificate (York University)
PhD (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.
• Dissertation: Examining the Potential of Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Teaching in English for Academic Purposes: Learner Voices

BA (Sultan Qaboos University)
MA (University of Victoria)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: second language acquisition, language, culture and identity, identity and second language pragmatics.
• Dissertation: Identity and pragmatic transfer: The role of Omani EFL learners' identitites in their pragmatics choices in English

BA (King Faisal University)
MA (Pennsylvania State University)
PhD (York University)

• Dissertation: The Effect of Direct and Indirect Written CF on the Acquisition of Rule-Based and Item-Based Linguistic Features

Linguistics

• A Qualitative Study of Anti-Feminist Discursive Strategies in Online Comment Sections" (Thesis)

BA & MA  (York University)
PhD (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)
• Dissertation: Issues in Spanish Verbal Inflection: A Distributed Morphology Approach

Applied Linguistics

• The Effectiveness of Teaching Communications Strategies to ESL/EFL Learners: A Literature Review

Applied Linguistics

• Contemporary Debates of Standardization of English as an International Language: An Analysis of Implications for the Non-Native Educator

• The Rhotic Consonant(s) in Contemporary Modern Irish

Linguistics

• Phonetic Spelling in Internet Korean

Applied Linguistics

• Implications of Bilingual Brain Research for Brain-Compatible Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy

Applied Linguistics

• The Influence of Repeated Revisions on L2 Students’ Writing

BA (National Linguistic University, Ukraine)
MA (OISE, University of Toronto)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Second language acquisition and the study of narrative.
• Dissertation: Aspect and Case in Interlanguage Grammars: The Case of English Learners of Russian

• Relative Use of Phonaesthemes in the Constitution and Development of Genres

Linguistics

• Loanword Pitch Accentuation in Japanese: A Stratal Optimality Approach

Applied Linguistics

• Revisioning the World of Music: A Song-Writing Seminar for the EAP Classroom

Applied Linguistics

• Aspirations in Praxis: Challenges, Trends, and Issues in Critical ELT

BA (McGill University)
TESL Certificate (Concordia University)
MA & PhD (York University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Cinncinatti

• Research interests: Language Policy and Planning; Ethnography of Language Policy; Language Assessment for purposes of immigration, Critical Language Testing; Critical Discourse Analysis (Dialectical-Relational and Discourse-Historical Approaches); Language Ideology, Standard Language Ideology; Language and (Post)Nationalism, discourses of language and national identity; Language and Governmentality, discourse/language as technologies of government; Language and Neo-liberalism.
• Dissertation: The Revaluation of the National Language in a Post-National Era: Language Policy and the Governance of Migration and Citizenship

Linguistics

• Changing Perceptions and Attitudes to Natural Signed Languages: From Recognition to Acceptance?

BA (University of Guelph)
MA & PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Second Language Education; language policy; immigration and citizenship; language, culture, and identity; development of writing for academic purposes.
• Dissertation: Intersections between the life stories of internationally-trained immigrant women and institutional narratives of immigrant success in Ontario

Applied Linguistics

• To Be an “Intercultural Speaker” in the Globalized Village — A Survey of Newly Arrived Chinese Immigrant Professionals Living in Canada

Applied Linguistics

• Motivation of the "Neglected Heart" of Language Instruction

• Portingles Use in the Greater Toronto Area

BA (University of Western Ontario)
MA (MacQuarie University)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: sociocultural theory/activity theory as applied to second/foreign language acquisition, teaching and learning; the role of the first language in second/foreign language education; bilingual/multilingual pedagogy; classroom based research focusing on classroom interaction; and computer-mediated language learning.
• Dissertation: Native English-Speaking Teachers Using Korean to Teach EFL in South Korea: A Sociocultural Analysis of Teachers' Beliefs and Practices

BA (University of Ottawa)
MA & TESOL Certificate (Carleton University)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests:  language policy and planning; linguistic anthropology; English in the world, globalization and TEFL; English for academic purposes.
• Dissertation: Higher Education Policy, English Language Learning and Language Policy: An Ethnography of Brazilian Stem Scholarship Students in Canada

Applied Linguistics

• The Common European Framework of Reference in Canadian Official Language Education

Applied Linguistics

• Co-Construction of Identities in the Classroom Setting

Linguistics

• "I know, I'm not only goregous, I'm also fabulous!": Complimenting and Related Discursive Strategies in a Polish-Canadian Community of Practice

Applied Linguistics

• Linguistic and Contextual Factors in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

Linguistics

• Inconsistencies, strategic questioning, and deception in repeated interrogations of Jodi Arias

Linguistics

• Patterns of Polar Interrogative Particle in Hindi

Applied Linguistics

• Effects of Accent on Perceived Fluency

Applied Linguistics

• Narration of My Trilingual Identity Path from An Ecological Perspective

Linguistics

• On Argument Structure in Ndebele: Applicatives High and Low

Applied Linguistics

• Responding to L2 Student Writing

Applied Linguistics

• A Year in a Persian-Canadian Boy's Language Socialization: An Immigrant Family's Challenges

Applied Linguistics

• Internationally Educated Nurses(IENs) at Work in Toronto: The IENs’ Perspective

• The Politics of Language Policy in Latvia

Applied Linguistics

• Attending to Form and Meaning: The NET Method — Noticing, Explicitness, Tasks

• Classifiers: A Comparative Study of Cantonese and Mandarin

Applied Linguistics

• Language Policies and Language Planning in Contemporary Ukraine

Linguistics

• McMaster’s Directions: Managerialist Discourse and Change in Higher Education

Linguistics

• "What do you mean you're stressed out?": The Concept of Stress in Biomedicine and Alternative Health Care Systems

Applied Linguistics

• The Relationship between Culture and Strategies Used by ESL Students in Listening

Applied Linguistics

• Preparing ESL Students for Academic Programs: A Case Study Exploring Student Perspectives

Applied Linguistics

• A Critical Analysis of Research on Integrated and Independent Tasks for Assessing ESL Writing

Applied Linguistics

• Expertise in L2 Writing: Potential for the Integration of the Writing-as-a-Process Approach in the EAP Program at University of Chittagong

Applied Linguistics

• A Study on Language Identity Shift in Azeri-Iranians Living in Canada

Applied Linguistics

• Analysis of the Discourse and Linguistics Features of Essays Written for YELT

Applied Linguistics

• E-mail Pragmatics: Stepping up from College to the Workplace

• Variation in the Spoken French of Franco-Ontarians: Preposition De Followed by the Deictic Pro-forms ca and la, aller in… (Thesis)

Applied Linguistics

• Assessing Constraints and Affordances in the TEYL/TEFL Language Ecology: Distinctions between Early and Late Primary School Students

• On a typology of political apologies: Introducing the AXBXCX model

Linguistics

• Trilingual Code-Switching as Communication Strategy: Russian Israelis in Toronto

Linguistics

• English Language Education in India

• The Canadian Shift Beyond the City Limits (Thesis)

Applied Linguistics

• Language Planning Practices and Wolofization in Senegal (Thesis)

BA (Dalhousie University)
MA & PhD (York University)
Professeur, Département de linguistique, Université du Québec à Montréal

• Research interests: Acadian French, North American French, grammatical variation, language contact, language and the media, socio-syntax, variationist sociolinguistics.

• Dissertation (MA):The Integration of Words of English Origin in Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian French
• Dissertation (PhD): A Window on the Past, A Move Toward the Future: Sociolinguistic and Formal Perspective on Variation in Acadian French

• English-Mandarin code-switching in a bilingual family

Applied Linguistics

• "Thunder or Lightning: Addressing Nonverbal Communication in the ESL Classroom"

• A New Hegemonic Masculinity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Dominance and Violence in Eminem’s Rap Lyrics

Applied Linguistics

• Teaching Practices of ESL Teachers in Elementary Schools in Ontario

Applied Linguistics

• National Language Planning in Indonesia and Israel: A Contrastive Analysis of Two Case Studies

Linguistics

• Trilingual Utterances and Language Choice: A Look Inside a Trilingual Family (Russian-English-Hebrew)

Linguistics

• Changes in the Use of Doz/Iz in Trinidadian Creole

Linguistics

• Negotiating Face in an Online Community

Applied Linguistics

• Language Teachers' Digital Mindsets: Links between Everyday Use and Professional Use of Technology

BA (Darul Ihsan University)
MA (University of Dhaka)
MEd in TESL (University in British Columbia)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Gestures and embodied practices in ESL classrooms, multimodal/transmodal communication and learning in ESL/EFL setting, transdisciplinary studies in second language education, critical applied linguistics
• Dissertation: Conceptualizing Gestural Representations in ESL Classrooms: Alternative Theoretical Approaches

• "Nós" and "a gente": A Grammaticalization case in Azorean Portuguese

Linguistics

• Not Just “One of them Things”: The Conditioning of the Demonstrative Plural Pronoun Variable in West Virginia

BA (Dalhousie University)
MA & PhD (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.
• Dissertation: Language Ecology and Shift at Baawating, 1600-1971

Applied Linguistics

• Narrative Positionings and Agency of Three NNESTs: Shaping and Reshaping Teachers' Identities in the New World

BA (Kuwait University)
MA (California State University - Dominguez Hills)
PhD (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.
• Dissertation: EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices about Classroom Assessment: A Multiple Case Study in the Context of Kuwait

Linguistics

• The Study of the Choice of the Vocabulary in the Translations of the Bible into Japanese – From the Viewpoint of Language Contacts in the Far-East Asia

BA (George Mason University)
MA (Old Dominion University)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Language, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Violence, Ethnography
• Dissertation: 'She Chose to get ride of him by murder, not by leaving him': Discursive constructions of a battered woman who killed in R v Craig

Applied Linguistics

• Factors that Encourage or Discourage Teachers' Use of Moodle in the EAP Classroom

Applied Linguistics

• Issues of Fairness in Language Testing: An Investigation of Test-Takers' Perspectives on the York English Language Test (YELT)

Applied Linguistics

• Korean ESL Students’ Perceived Difficulties in Improving Communicative Competence in ESL Courses in Toronto

Linguistics

• Post-Obstruent Tensification in Korean within the Framework of OT

• The Korean Nominal Structure and Default Case

BA (McMaster University)
TESL Certificate (York University)
MA & PhD (York University)

• Research interests: broadcast talk, Conversation Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Institutional Talk, language and gender, political discourse
• Dissertation: Cracks in the Glass Ceiling?: Laughter and Politics in Broadcast News Interviews and the Gendered Nature of Media Representations

Linguistics

• Language Choice during the Syrian Revolution

Applied Linguistics

• Mother Tongue Use in the Classroom

BA (Saint Mary's University)
TESL Certificate (Saint Mary's University)
MEd & PhD (York University)

• Research interests: multilingualism, multiculturalism, identity, second language (L2) teaching and learning, sociocognitive L2 acquisition, peer interaction, international students, higher education, English as a second/foreign language, portraiture, internationalisation, and transnationalism.
• Dissertation: International Students in Higher Education: Language, Identity and Experience from a Holistic Perspective.

Linguistics

• Pornoun Drop in Catalan

• Case Assignment: A Comparison between Agreement-based versus Dependent Case Accounts

BA (University of Victoria)
MA & PhD (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, linguistic anthropology, narrative inquiry.
• Dissertation: Living language policy through stratified space: A linguistic ethnography in the United Arab Emirates

Applied Linguistics

• When Chickens are Required to Learn Ducks’ Tongue: Cantonese Speakers’ Language Attitudes in a Changing China

BA (Taibah University)
MA (Western University)
PhD (York University)

• Research interests: Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Arabic as a second/foreign language, L2 reading acquisition, Writing systems.
• Dissertation: The Effects of Context, Voice, and Vowelization on the Word Recognition Speed, Accuracy, and Comprehension of L2 Arabic Readers at Different Proficiency Levels

Applied Linguistics

• First Language Maintenance in Two Chinese Immigrant Families

Linguistics

• Raising and Obligatory/Exhaustive Control in Mandarin Chinese

• Hillbillies, Schmucks and Gangsters: A Perceptual Dialectology Study of the Greater Toronto Area

• The Role of Jamaican Creole in Formal Education

Linguistics

• A Review of Research on the Japanese Passive Voice