Amanda Wallace

Biography

As a language-acquisition specialist in CEE’s Curriculum & Instruction Division, I work with key stakeholders from across the university to identify, design, develop, and facilitate EAL support for Faculty, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. This work includes institutional-level projects and initiatives for curriculum, program, course, and non-traditional learning activities. Before this role, I worked in SFU’s Centre for English Language Learning, Teaching and Research (CELLTR) as the liaison to the Faculty of Applied Science (FAS). In this position, I collaborated with colleagues in FAS to create and implement academic language and literacy development projects related to instructional design and multilingual student support. From 2016 to 2018, I was a Limited Term Lecturer in SFU’s Faculty of Education, teaching FALX99: Foundations of Academic Literacy.

Before coming to SFU in 2016, I was an assistant teaching professor in the College English Program at Seoul National University in South Korea. I have more than 15 years of experience teaching courses in academic writing, communication, and content-based English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP). I have also facilitated professional development seminars and workshops for faculty and students in international contexts.

Apart from my professional work, I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Languages, Cultures and Literacies program in the Faculty of Education at SFU. My research focuses on the internationalization of higher education, multilingualism, academic language and literacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists and content faculty to support multilingual student success.

Publications 

Wallace, A., & Sjoerdsma, M., (Under review). Centering academic language and literacy skills in an internationalized university: Challenges and implications of implementing a post-entry language assessment in a first-year engineering course. In K. Beck & R. Ilieva (Eds.), Language, Culture and Education in an Internationalizing University: Perspectives and Practices of Faculty, Students and Staff. Bloomsbury Press.

Spiliotopoulos, V., Wallace, A., & Ilieva, R. (2022). Diffusing innovation to support faculty engagement in the integration of language and content across the disciplines in an internationalized Canadian university. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2022.2052813

Wallace, A., Spiliotopoulos, V., & Ilieva, R. (2020). CLIL Collaborations in Higher Education: A Critical Perspective. English Teaching & Learning, 44(2), 127-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42321-020-00052-4

Ilieva, R., Wallace, A., Spiliotopoulos, V. (2019). Institutional roles and identity construction of applied linguistics faculty involved in interdisciplinary collaborations for multilingual student success. TESL Canada Journal, 36(1), 71 – 96. https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v36i1.1303 

Lee, G., & Wallace, A. (2017). Flipped learning in the English as a foreign language classroom: Outcomes and perceptions. TESOL Quarterly, 52(1), 62-84. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.372

Selected presentations

Singh, E., Wallace, A., & Shaw, F. (2022, October). Re:Imagining inclusive classrooms using linguistically responsive pedagogy: A case study. Paper presented at the POD Network Conference [online]. 

Shaw, F., Wallace, A., & Singh, E. (2022, March). Faculty Development with an ESL Lens in Post-Secondary Settings. Paper presented the TESOL International Association’s Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  

Wallace, A., Shaw, F., & Singh, E. (2022, March). Faculty development to support multilingual students at a Canadian university: Centering language in disciplinary courses. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Wallace, A. (2021, August). Interdisciplinary collaborations in support of multilingual students at an Anglo-dominant university: Implications for institutional language policies. Presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics [online]. 

Ilieva, R., Wallace, A., & Shaw, F. (2021, August). The CLIL Dance: Collaborations between language and content faculty as a linguistically responsive pedagogy in an internationalized university. Paper presented at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics [online].  

Singh, E., Wallace, A., & Shaw, F. (2021, June). Harnessing principles of universal design to foster student engagement in online learning environments. Paper presented at the International Teaching Online Symposium [online].  

Wallace, A.  & Ilieva, R. (2019, October). Integrating language and literacy support at the curricular core: Models of interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists and content-area faculty. Paper presented at the Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education Conference, Castellon, Spain.

Wallace, A. & Babaee, N. (2019, June). Language and literacy skills development of multilingual students in engineering science and fine arts: Challenges and opportunities of course-aligned models of support. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Ilieva, R., Wallace, A., & Spiliotopoulos, V. (2019, June). Language faculty in cross-disciplinary collaborations for multilingual student success. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Ilieva, R. & Wallace, A. (2018, June). Conceptualizing English-dominant language contexts within the internationalization of higher education in dialogue with Dafouz and Smit’s ROAD-MAPPING Framework. Paper presented at the 22nd Sociolinguistics Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. 

Selected workshops & poster presentations

Singh, E., Wallace, A., & Shaw, F. (2022, March). Harnessing principles of universal design to foster student engagement. Workshop presented the TESOL International Association’s Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Shaw, F., & Wallace, A. (2022, November). Re:Imagining faculty development through a linguistically responsive pedagogical lens. Poster presentation at The POD Network Conference in Seattle, Washington.