Research
- 2014–2015
Utilizing a multilingual resource: ScribJab in action
With Diane Dagenais
Institutional SSHRC, $10,000 - 2011–2014
Emerging multimodal literacies: Second language learners making videos
With Diane Dagenais
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $122,000 - 2012–2013
Multilingual storytelling: Digital explorations
Canada Interactive Fund of Canadian Heritage, website and application development grant, $141,000 - 2010
Videomaking in three contexts: Building cosmopolitan multiliteracies
With Diane Dagenais
Institutional SSHRC, $13,000 - 2008–2009
Community literacy practices and their impact on schools
Metropolis BC Research Grant, $15,000 - 2006–2009
A sociocultural investigation of literacy instruction for children learning English as a second language
Principal Investigator with Paul Neufeld and Roz Stooke (SFU)
SSHRC Standard Grant, $106,575
- 2005–2006
Contexts and family literacies in English language learning
Principal Investigator with Paul Neufeld, Roz Stooke, and Natalia Gajdamaschko (SFU)
Discovery Parks, $8511
- 2004
A pilot study of sociocultural approaches to literacy instruction and assessment for child English language learners
Small SSHRC Research Grant, $4400 - 2001–2003
Language learning in intermediate grades
With Diane Dagenais (SFU)
Centre of Excellence for Research on Literacy and Language Network. Research Grant, $87,000
- 2000–2001
Cultural and linguistic identities: A case study of social responsibility in one elementary school
Small SSHRC Research Grant, $3000
- 1999–2001
Appropriating voices: Learning ESL in elementary school
Standard SSHRC Research Grant, $123,000
- 1996–2001
Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (RIIM)
SSHRC, CEIC and others. $2,000,000. Principal investigator in two projects ($40,000 and $18,000) and joint in one project ($42,000).
- 1996–1999
Situated learning of English as a second language: An ethnographic study in Canadian public school classrooms
Standard SSHRC Research Grant, $110,000