October 7, 2026 By Ingrid Jasor In this webinar, Ingrid Jasor, a doctoral candidate in Education at the University of Quebec in Montréal (UQÀM), presented on plurilingual approaches to teaching ESL. Using a word-association activity, Jasor discussed with participants the importance of teachers’ conscious and unconscious social representations of the target language vis-à-vis other minoritized languages and how their own personal experiences can influence their teaching practi

We discuss how Language Friendly Schools are growing and effectively building multilingual and inclusive communities.

We take a look at research-based, creative, and critical approaches to teaching ESL through spoken word poetry.

We discuss a case study on social justice and peacebuilding curriculum taught in an English classroom in Columbia.

We share data collected from pre-service and in-service ESL teachers through surveys, interviews, and focus groups over five years.

Jacqueline discussed how her teaching helped students to address essential questions within the context of Canada’s history of colonization.

We discuss how gaming is capitalized by second language learners to acquire their target language.

We discuss how to use bi/plurilingual children’s literature with emergent bilinguals to raise their metalinguistic awareness.

We discuss what plurilingualism means and its implications for teaching and learning.