Graduate Student Supervision
Senior Supervisor
Mohammad Alhannash, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Students' academic literacy practices in higher education"
Setareh Masoumi Mayni, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Language socialization of immigrants in Canada"
Jiraporn McGladdery, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Second language writing of international students in Canadian higher education"
Gahyun Son, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Second language writing and academic literacies in Canadian higher education"
Matthias Sturm, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Social Inclusion and Digital Equity for Newcomer Adult Language Learners"
Fernanda Tello Ramírez, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Translanguaging teaching practices in higher education"
Anu Upadhaya, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "The language and literacy practices of Nepali women migrants in Canada"
Gary Whittaker, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Caribbean Creole English Language, Literacy and Cultural Identity Development: A Plurilingual Perspective to Democratizing Eurocentric Canadian English Language Literature Pedagogies"
Ru Yao, (co-supervision) PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Plurilingualism among Chinese communities in Vancouver"
Completed Theses (Senior Supervisor)
PhD
2024: Brent Amburgey, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Plurilingual Students' Navigation of Learning in an Undergraduate Business Program: A Qualitative Study of Language, Discourse, and Practices"
2023: Kiyu Itoi, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Re-thinking English-only pedagogy through translanguaging in Japanese university CLIL classrooms: students, teachers, challenges and dilemmas"
2023: Xiaojie Ning, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Voice and Aspiration: How Minority Students as Multilingual Learners Experience their Multilingualism and Construct Identities in Southwest China"
2020: Tanis Sawkins, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Arts-informed program evaluation: A tool for re-imagining employment programs for migrant women"
2018: A critical analysis of Mexican migrant farm workers in British Columbia: Language, oppression, and resistance.
2018: Arlene Kent Spracklin, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "A Qualitative Research Study on the Interplays between Plurilingualism and Identity"
2018: Timothy Mossman, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Processes of identity construction for Generation 1.5 university students in Canada"
2015: Naoko Takei, PhD Languages, Cultures and Literacies: "Language, Culture and Ethnicity: A case of Japanese mixed heritage youth"
2013: Hisako Hayashi, PhD Curriculum, Theory and Implementation: "Becoming a student: multilingual university students’ identity construction in Simon Fraser University"
EdD
2013: Ted Gervan, EdD Educational Leadership, "How students develop a sense of belonging to their academic community: A qualitative study of students’ experiences in a for-profit entertainment arts college"
MA
2016: Connie Lam James, MA Teaching English as an Additional Language, "Multilingual Learners: Student Experiences in a First-Year Academic Literacy Class "
2011: Jennifer Walsh Marr, MA Curriculum and Instruction, Foundations, "Exploring identity formation and academic writing of multilingual students: Skipping through the academy"