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About the Director

Sunny Man Chu Lau, PhD
School of Education, Bishop's University, Québec, Canada
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Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Full Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University, Québec and an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, is the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning. She specializes in critical literacies, second language and plurilingual education, teaching English as a second language, participative-based research methodologies, and related teacher education.​

Projects

Find resources below.

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For REEAL Webinars

Our team of Researchers and Educators of English as an Additional Language aims to promote active engagement of researchers, educators, and in-service and pre-service teachers of English as an additional language (EAL) in critical inquiry into their own practice.

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Plurilingual Pedagogies for immgrant learners at CEGEP

This was a collaborative action research project with teachers from Cegep de Sherbrooke, aiming to co-develop context-specific plurilingual pedagogies that support immigrant learners’ language and content learning.

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English-French Teachers' Collaborations

Researchers and teachers work together to co-build relationship and capacity in identifying and maximizing reciprocal language learning opportunities, co-creating innovative instructional strategies and tools, promoting critical reading, and fostering students' intercultural awareness and civic engagement using a collaborative action research approach.

About the Team Manager

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Anjali Vij
School of Education, Bishop's University, Québec, Canada
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After working for almost 10 years as instructor at the higher education level in India, Anjali moved to Sherbrooke in 2021 to pursue an M.Ed. in Educational Studies and Leadership at Bishop’s University, which she completed in 2023. She also holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from University of Delhi, India, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business-Economics. Since 2022, she has been working as a research assistant for CIPTL and currently serves as an administrative assistant in the Practice Teaching Office at Bishop’s University.

Our Team of Research Assistants

Meet our past and present team of research assistants who support various projects.

Past research assistants

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