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The Centre for Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning (CIPTL)

advances critical education through engaging teachers as researchers in cross-curricular and cross-language collaboration. It serves as a research hub connecting educators, community stakeholders, and researchers locally and globally—both in-person and online—for research and knowledge-building and -sharing activities.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE — IN-DEPTH LEARNING

PLURILINGUAL PEDAGOGIES FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS AT CEGEP

PÉDAGOGIES PLURILINGUES
(ENTENTE CANADA-QUÉBEC)

ENGLISH & FRENCH TEACHERS' COLLABORATIONS

PLURILINGUAL
CONFERENCE 2025

CIPTL Research Assistant Zoe Cober Awarded FRQSC Research Scholarship

We are delighted to announce that Zoe Cober, a third-year student at Bishop’s University’s School of Education, has been awarded the Bourse d’initiation à la recherche au 1er cycle from Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). Zoe’s research project is titled Des voix qui comptent : Affirmer l'identité et promouvoir l'engagement scolaire chez les apprenants de l'anglais et du français langues additionnelles dans un cégep anglophone du Québec.

CIPTL Announcements

Feb 27

The LaV Gamification Initiative: Gamifying our research and teaching practices

May 6, 2026 By Raúl Alberto Mora and Tatiana Gómez-Ramírez In this webinar, Raúl Alberto Mora, an associate professor in the School of Education and Pedagogy at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, Colombia, and Tatiana Gómez-Ramírez, the founder and general manager of ELT Think Tank, introduced their LaV (Language and Victory) project and their findings. This project based on the idea of using gaming skills into the classroom to enhance student engagement and cont

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May 12

Multilingual Creative Writing for Critical Engagement and Metalinguistic Awareness

April 8, 2026 By Janan Chan (陳臻) In this webinar, Janan Chan (陳臻), a doctoral student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, presented different ways to build students' multilinguistic awareness through creative writing. Chan offered four activities that can be adapted in class to engage students in critical reflections on their own language use and linguistic and cultural upbringings. Through these activities, Chan proposes shifting writ

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Apr 14

Landguaging the imperial classroom: Environmentally attuning to land through plurilingual and land-sensitizing curriculum

March 17, 2026 By Dr. Rhonda Chung In this webinar, Dr. Rhonda Chung, a current lecturer at McGill University, presented land-sensitizing activities aimed to confront imperial history and repair imperial languages' relationship with land. The first one is the Multimodal Autobiographical Landguaging Portrait, an arts-based ethnographic tool to support teachers' and students' self-reflection of their language experiences in connection to the lands where they occur, fostering en

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Mar 21

Translanguaging art. Using creative and arts-based methods to support transformative, non-deficit approaches to language learning and teaching

February 4, 2026 by Dobrochna Futro In this webinar, Professor Dobrochna Futro, a Lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, presented a number of art-based activities that enhance language learning through translanguaging practices. These multimodal learning activities also help create a more inclusive learning environment that meets the needs of the multilingual realities of today's classrooms. Professor Futro shared projects that she has led and co-led in various

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Feb 4

Translanguaging in Action: Fostering Multilingual Learner Identity Through Me Mapping

Jan 13, 2026 In this webinar, Dr. Antoinette Gagné, Professor Emerita from OISE/University of Toronto, introduced participants to Me Mapping as an effective pedagogical approach for nurturing positive multilingual learner identities and supporting language learning. She described how Me Mapping invites students to create multimodal artifacts that reflect their linguistic backgrounds, key life stages, and multiple identities, etc. Dr. Gagné also engaged the participants in

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Jan 22

Announcements

References/Bibliographie:

Byram, M., & Wagner, M. (2018). Making a difference: Language teaching for intercultural and international dialogue. Foreign Language Annals, 51(1), 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12319

Castellotti, V., & Moore, D. (2010). Capitalising on, activating and developing plurilingual and pluricultural repertoires for better school integration. The linguistic and educational integration of children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds studies and resources n° 4.

Coste, D., De Pietro, J.-F., & Moore, D. (2012). Hymes et le palimpseste de la compétence de communication. Tours, détours et retours en didactique des langues. Langage et Société, 139, 103-123.

Coste, D., Moore, D., & Zarate, G. (1997/2009). Plurilingual and pluricultural competence. Council of Europe.

Dault, C. (2025). Mise en œuvre de pratiques d’enseignement plurilingues et interculturelles du français langue additionnelle : Une recherche-action pédagogique auprès de personnes étudiant dans une université anglophone [Thèse de doctorat, Université de Sherbrooke]. Savoirs UdeS. https://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/22703.

Lau, S. M. C. (2025). Critical Framing of Transversal Competences: Promoting Intercultural Responsibility through Cross-language and Cross-curricular Teacher Collaborations. Cahiers De L’ILOB / OLBI Journal, 14, 15–36. https://doi.org/10.18192/olbij.v14i1.704.

Lau, S. M. C., & Van Viegen, S. (2020). Plurilingual pedagogies : Critical and creative endeavors for equitable language in education [Book]. Springer.

Join our community of educators and researchers​ Find resources and inspiration for your practice and research

Explore Our Projects

FOR REEAL WEBINARS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE — IN-DEPTH LEARNING

PLURILINGUAL PEDAGOGIES FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS AT CEGEP​

PÉDAGOGIES PLURILINGUES (ENTENTE CANADA-QUÉBEC)

ENGLISH & FRENCH TEACHERS' COLLABORATIONS

PLURILINGUAL CONFERENCE 2025

CIPTL Research Assistant Zoe Cober Awarded FRQSC Research Scholarship

The LaV Gamification Initiative: Gamifying our research and teaching practices

Multilingual Creative Writing for Critical Engagement and Metalinguistic Awareness

Landguaging the imperial classroom: Environmentally attuning to land through plurilingual and land-sensitizing curriculum

Translanguaging art. Using creative and arts-based methods to support transformative, non-deficit approaches to language learning and teaching

Translanguaging in Action: Fostering Multilingual Learner Identity Through Me Mapping

Announcements

Join our community of educators and researchers
Find resources and inspiration for your practice and research

PLURILINGUAL PEDAGOGIES FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS AT CEGEP

PÉDAGOGIES PLURILINGUES
(ENTENTE CANADA-QUÉBEC)

PLURILINGUAL
CONFERENCE 2025