Dr. Steve Marshall
Professor, Faculty of Education
Associate Dean, Research and International
- Email: sj_marshall@sfu.ca
- Phone: 778-782-7666
- Office: Education Building, Room 8675
Faculty of Education Research Hub
Click on the Research Hub link below for information on research in the Faculty of Education: https://www.sfu.ca/education-research-hub.html
My research focus
The scope of my research encompasses plurilingualism, academic literacy, study abroad and international education, and linguistic landscaping.
My higher education research ranges from small-scale ethnographic projects in classes across the disciplines to a large-scale impact assessment of a first-year academic literacy program. In recent years, I have researched teaching and learning across the disciplines in Canadian higher education, in particular, students' use of languages other than English (e.g., Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Punjabi) as tools for learning, as well as instructors' pedagogical responses to linguistic diversity in their classes.
In the field of international education, I have analyzed the study abroad experiences of teachers from several southeast Asian countries, Japan, and Taiwan through post-program site visits, interviews, and analysis of reflective narratives written during and after study abroad. My related research highights the need for sustainable, ethical, reciprocal international partnerships, as well as post-program impact assessment. I am currently developing collaborative research with several global partners at institutions in Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
My linguistic landscaping research has focused on three areas: the educational potential of linguistic landscaping activities in graduate studies as a way to engage critically with multilingual communities, social control and public pedagogy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the linguistic landscapes of university spaces with regard to current policies of decolonization and equity.
I also write textbooks, and am the author of Advance in Academic Writing 1 & 2, and Grammar for Academic Purposes 1 & 2, published by ERPI ELT, Montreal.
And finally, I have a YouTube Channel - OnScreen Academy. The channel offers free-access short screencast videos on English language and academic writing, and has received over 275,000 views from around the world. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmMdQxeZJxzHDl6z528Q2A
Selected recent publications
International Education
Marshall, S. & Amburgey, B. (2024). Challenges Faced by Japanese English Teachers Applying Knowledge after Study Abroad. In K. Beck & R. Ilieva (Eds.) Language, Culture, and Education in an Internationalizing University: Perspectives and Practices of Faculty, Students, and Staff. Bloomsbury.
Marshall, S., & Spracklin, A. (2022). “We are in our country. Why do we have to resort to western ways of doing things?”: an analytic framework for knowledge application in language teachers studying abroad. Educational Linguistics, 1(2), 267-289.
Academic Literacy Education
Marshall, S., Hartse, J. H., Fazel, I., & Son, G. (2023). Remote Learning and First-Year Academic Literacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Interaction and Collaborative Learning among EAL Students. TESL Canada Journal, 40(2), 1-18.
Linguistic Landscaping
Marshall, S., Alhannash, M., & Masoumi Mayni, S. (in press). Reflecting on Linguistic Landscapes during Decolonizing Times: A Case from Canadian Higher Education. In E. Krompák & D. Gorter (Eds.), Educational Agency and Activism in Lingustic Landscape Studies. Peter Lang.
Marshall, S. (2023). Navigating COVID-19 linguistic landscapes in Vancouver’s North Shore: Official signs, grassroots literacy artefacts, monolingualism, and discursive convergence. International Journal of Multilingualism, 20(2), 189-213.
Plurilingualism and Education
Marshall, S. (2021). Plurilingualism and the Tangled Web of Lingualisms. In E. Piccardo, A. Germain-Rutherford, & G. Lawrence (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education (pp. 46-64), Routledge.
Marshall, S. (2020). Understanding plurilingualism and developing pedagogy: Teaching in linguistically diverse classes across the disciplines at a Canadian university. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 33(2), 142-156.