- About
- Inquiry Support
- Seminar Series, Workshops, & Programs
- SoTL 101: Introduction to SoTL and Teaching + Learning Inquiry
- SoTL 102: Formulating an Inquiry Project
- Tools for Inquiry: Conducting Inquiry Using CES
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Decolonial Teaching + Learning Seminar Series
- Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curricula
- Disrupting Colonialism through Teaching Program
- Exploring Well-being in Learning Environments: An Integrated Seminar Series + Grants Program
- Inquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom: An Integrated Seminar Series + Grants Program
- New Ways of Teaching, New Ways of Learning: Supporting Learning in Online Environments
- Open Education Grant Pilot Program
- Teaching and Learning Development Grant Program
- Project Final Report Archive
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Sarah Johnson
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Robert Krider
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Jamie Mulholland
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Michael Filimowicz
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Lisa Papania
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Juan Pablo Alperin
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Marek Hatala
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Chantal Gibson
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Leith Davis
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Tara Holland
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Dara Culhane
- Disrupting Colonialism through Teaching Program
- Exploring Well-being in Learning Environments Program
- Inquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom Projects
- New Ways of Teaching, New Ways of Learning
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Conferences, Calls for Papers + Proposals
- Academic Integrity in Distance and Open Education - Edited Collection [Deadline: February 28, 2025]
- CAPLA's Recognition of Prior Learning in Rural Spaces: Call for Proposals [Deadline: February 28, 2025]
- UBC Graduate Students in Teaching Conference Call for Proposals [Deadline: March 3, 2025]
- Dialogically Relational Leadership (Growing Together in, as, with, for, and through SoTL) [Event date: March 19, 2025]
- Elon University 21st Annual Teaching & Learning Conference: Call for Proposals [Deadline: March 21, 2025]
- 2025 Scholarly Writing Retreat Conference [Deadline: May 1, 2025]
- For Research Personnel
Inquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom: An Integrated Seminar Series + Grants Program
2018-2020
丁香园AV has recognized the need in today鈥檚 globalized higher education context, to respond to the multilingual and multicultural composition of the university community. In its work with students, faculty and staff across 丁香园AV, the Transforming Inquiry into Learning + Teaching (TILT) team has cultivated and supported research-based teaching and learning practices in disciplinary specific academic language development. Such practices are built upon the recognition and understanding of multilingual students鈥� unique strengths and needs. To expand our efforts to support the curiosities and concerns of faculty teaching linguistically and culturally diverse students, in collaboration with the , TILT & CEE piloted an Integrated Seminar Series and Grants Program, entitled 鈥淚nquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom鈥�. This program will enable participating faculty to gain background knowledge related to working with such students while at the same time crafting an inquiry project to support related changes to teaching and learning in their classrooms.
Seminar participants:
- Gained knowledge about working with multilingual and culturally diverse students to enhance academic success
- Crafted a project proposal on exploring teaching and learning issues related to multilingual and culturally diverse students and/or implementing and evaluating changes they wish to make to their teaching
- Received feedback from fellow seminar participants and facilitators on their inquiry design
- Received up to $6000 to support their design and/or implementation and evaluation work
- Received support finding research assistants to help them with their design, implementation and evaluation work
- Received on-going administrative, curricular and research support throughout the implementation of their projects
Examples of topics addressed in the seminar:
- Myths and realities about language and language acquisition
- Language and content integration in higher education settings
- Additional topics arising from participants鈥� specific interests and inquiries
Facilitation Team
Roumi Ilieva
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education working. Roumi's scholarship is in the field of applied linguistics and focuses on language and culture, the internationalization of education, and professional identities. Her most recent study centers on interdisciplinary collaboration for multilingual student success.
Laura D鈥橝mico
Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education and former Research Associate with TILT (2015 - 2019). With over 20 years of experience in the development and study of systems for supporting and implementing educational improvement and reform, Laura provides faculty with practical advice on how to conduct their project evaluations. She is versed in a wide-range of educational research methods and approaches.
鈥淟anguage, whether seen as a discourse, social construction, commodity, or semiotic system, plays a critical role in processes of globalizing and internationalizing education.鈥� (Byrd Clark, Haque, and Lamoreux, 2012)
鈥淚n [many] practices in higher education, language issues are often overlooked and dangerously simplified.鈥� (Dafouz, 2017)