For Researchers and Educators of English as an Additional Language (For REEAL)
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. Our community seeks to generate new ways of being, thinking, and doing as EAL practitioners and educators.
Through workshops, forums, and sharing of online resources, we hope to:
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Provide collaborative learning spaces for practitioners to ask questions, exchange ideas, and build theories of language teaching and learning;
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Support practitioners’ life-long professional development;
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Promote practitioners’ identity as researchers and agents for change and social justice;
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Develop practitioners' capacity to identify contextual research questions and to find ways to implement change in their practice.
The For REEAL Team
Meet the team of educators and researchers who work in collaboration with Dr. Lau to share pedagogical tools, theories, and the latest research for teaching and learning English as an additional language.
Sunny Lau
Sunny Lau, Full Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University, specializes in critical literacies, second language and plurilingual education, teaching English as a second language, participative-based research methodologies, and related teacher education.
Philippa Parks
Philippa Parks is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her research looks at how language teachers form their professional identity during teacher education, particularly how they build self-efficacy and resilience.
Monica Waterhouse
Monica Waterhouse is an Associate Professor/Professeure agrégée in the Département de Langues, linguistiques et traduction at Université Laval and Director of the ESL teacher education program (2020-2024 mandate). She teaches in the area of language pedagogies and supervises field practicums. Her recent research works with the Deleuzian concept of affect to study the potential of arts-based approaches in language education.
Trevor Gulliver
Trevor Gulliver is a Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He has taught English as a Second Language in South Korea and Canada and worked on language teacher professional development projects with teachers from around the world. His research explores issues of power and identity in language learning and teaching and constructions of national identity in ESL textbooks used in Canada.