Pédagogies plurilingues (Entente Canada-Québec)

Co-développer la capacité des enseignants à soutenir les étudiants en français et en anglais langue seconde dans les programmes du Cégep

Project Description:

Funded by Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur - Entente Canada-Québec, this project, through participatory action research, aims to strengthen instructors’ capacity across disciplines to design and implement plurilingual pedagogies that leverage students’ full communicative repertoires, enhancing both general language skills and discipline-specific literacy.

Responding to Law 14, which mandates Anglophone collegians to complete five courses in French (either language or program courses) starting Fall 2024, this project initiative addresses the bilingual demands of the college programs while advancing inclusive, plurilingual practices that encourage cross-linguistic transfer and integrated understanding across languages and subject areas.

The Team

Meet the team of educators and researchers who work in collaboration with Dr. Lau for the Pédagogies plurilingues (Entente Canada-Québec) Project.

Daniela Fernandes

Principal Investigator

Daniela Fernandes completed a master’s degree in Adaptation scolaire et sociale at the Université de Sherbrooke, specializing in didactique des mathématiques. She has over 25 years of experience in the field of education, having taught at every level from preschool to university before becoming a Pedagogical Counsellor at Champlain College Lennoxville in 2023.

Jordan Glass

Co-Investigator

Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Jordan Glass completed his doctorate in philosophy at Fordham University (NYC). His research focused on philosophy of education, language, and ethics. He taught philosophy and the humanities in universities and Cegeps for many years before becoming a pedagogical counsellor at Champlain-Lennoxville in 2022.

Sunny Lau

Lead Researcher (Quebec)

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.

Caroline Dault

Research Coordinator

Caroline Dault is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Moncton. Her research focuses on French as an additional language, teaching practices in plurilingual and pluricultural settings, as well as supporting teachers through the exploration of these practices.

Inventory of Plurilingual Teaching Strategies

Valorizing and Mobilizing Students’ Plurilingual, Pluricultural, and Pluriliterate Repertoires

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Discipline-Specific Plurilingual Teaching Strategies

Click on the academic discipline to access lesson plans, video examples, teacher testimonies, and examples of student work from plurilingual techniques