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
**Note: currently not accepting new PhD students.**
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My research focus
I have spent many years doing collaborative qualitative research in academic writing/literacy classes and other classes across the disciplines in higher education, focusing in particular on plurilingual/international students' sense of belonging, identities, and use of languages other than English (e.g., Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Punjabi) as tools for learning. Additionally, I have researched instructors' pedagogical responses to cultural and linguistic diversity in their classes.
My research also includes a large-scale impact assessment of a first-year academic literacy program, comparing post-program GPA and retention rates of up to 80,000+ students, done in collaboration with SFU Institutional Research and Planning.
In the field of international education, I have analyzed the study abroad experiences of language teachers from Japan, Taiwan, and several southeast Asian countries through post-program site visits, interviews, and analysis of reflective narratives written during and after study abroad. In my role as Associate Dean, Research and International, my focus is on the need for sustainable, ethical, reciprocal international partnerships, as well as post-program impact assessment.
My research on linguistic landscapes has focused on three areas: the educational potential of linguistic landscape activities in graduate studies as a way to engage critically with multilingual communities, 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 TC Media ELT (previously Pearson), 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 students around the world. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmMdQxeZJxzHDl6z528Q2A
Selected publications
Multilingual Students and Academic Literacy
Marshall, S., Heng Hartse, J., 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.
Marshall, S., & Walsh Marr, J. (2018). Teaching multilingual learners in Canadian writing-intensive classrooms: Pedagogy, binaries, and conflicting identities. Journal of Second Language Writing, 40, 32-43.
Marshall, S. (2009). Re-becoming ESL: Multilingual university students and a deficit identity. Language and Education, 24(1), 41-56.
Plurilingualism and Education
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.
Marshall, S., & Moore, D. (2018). Plurilingualism amid the panoply of lingualisms: Addressing critiques and misconceptions in education. International Journal of Multilingualism, 15(1), 19-34.
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 (pp. 129-146). 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.
Linguistic Landscapes
Marshall, S., Alhannash, M., & Masoumi Mayni, S. (2024). Reflecting on linguistic landscapes during decolonizing times: A case from Canadian higher education. In E. Krompák & D. Gorter (Eds.), Educational Agency and Activism in Linguistic Landscape Studies (pp. 195-228). 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.