About the Director
Sunny Man Chu Lau, PhD
School of Education, Bishop's University, Québec, Canada
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.
Dr. Sunny Lau received the 2024 William & Nancy Turner Teaching Award.
Dr. Sunny Lau and her team are featured in a 2019 article from Écho de la recherche, a Cégep de Sherbrooke research journal.
Sunny Lau - recipient of the 2018 Divisional Teaching Award
Dr. Sunny Lau received the 2024 William & Nancy Turner Teaching Award.
About the Team Manager
Anjali Vij
School of Education, Bishop's University, Québec, Canada
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.
Bianca Emmell-Tierney
Bianca Emmell-Tierney completed her Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Emilie Francoeur
Emilie Francoeur completed their Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Stéphanie Mallick–Pilon
Stéphanie Mallick–Pilon is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is in the process of completing her Bachelor of Education in Teaching and Learning English at the Secondary Level with a minor in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Carina Divinaflor
Carina Divinaflor is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is in the process of completing her Bachelor of Education in Teaching and Learning English at the Secondary Level.
Gabrielle Bouchard
Gabrielle Bouchard is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is in the process of completing her Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Zoe Cober
Zoe Cober is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese and Religious studies from Mount Allison University and a Master of Education in Second Language Education from the University of Ottawa.
Leia Yetman
Leia Yetman is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
Élisabeth Miville-Turcotte
Élisabeth Miville-Turcotte is a student at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Saylor Billiau
Saylor Billiau is a student at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages (French and Spanish) with a minor in TESL.
Past research assistants
Alexandra Lebeau
Alexandra has been working on related research projects as a Research Assistant since 2017. She is currently doing her Master of Arts in Education under the supervision of Dr. Lau at Bishop’s. She completed her BA in Modern Languages (English, Spanish and Japanese) and a Minor in TESL at Bishop’s in 2019. Language learning has become a vivid interest of hers since her arrival at Bishop’s and the start of her TESL minor. While French is her first language, she is a curious learner of English, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin and Arabic. In her own research, she hopes to explore further teachers’ attitudes regarding their plurilingual and pluricultural students.
Coralie Daoust
Coralie Daoust has been a Research Assistant for Dr. Sunny Lau since 2021. She is currently finishing her BA in Modern languages (Spanish and Japanese) with a minor in TESL. She has always been fascinated by languages and cultures in the world since she speaks French, English and is learning Spanish and Japanese.
Julia Charron
Julia has been a Research Assistant for the project since 2020. She is in the final year of her BA, majoring in Educational Studies and minoring in Teaching French as a Second Language. She looks forward to continuing her work within resource development as she completes her Bachelor of Education in the coming years. Integrated plurilingual and intercultural pedagogy has become her key passion since her arrival at Bishop’s, and she hopes to incorporate many plurilingual teaching and learning strategies into her elementary classroom post-graduation.
Ai Di
Di has worked as a Research Assistant since 2021. She was a university ESL teacher before and completed her Master of Arts in language study in Beijing Foreign Studies University. She has recently graduated from her Master of Education at Bishop’s. She is originally from China and speaks Mandarin and English and has some knowledge of French. She has extensive experience in second language teaching and is interested in research related to language teaching.