Masters students

Agathe Pascaline Atonfo

Atonfo Agathe Pascaline

Agathe is a first-year master's student at the Faculty of Education (Concentration Societies, Cultures and Languages), under the direction of Professor Francis Bangou. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Ottawa and is currently a certified teacher in the Ontario College of Teachers. Her research focuses on the study of the connections between digital technologies and language teaching/learning, specifically to explore the effects that corrective software could have on the development of written skills in French.

Agathe also teaches French as a second language at the Ottawa Catholic School Board.

Alaa Azan

Alaa Azan

Alaa Azan est étudiante en maîtrise à la faculté d'éducation de l'Université d'Ottawa. Alaa est inscrite à la concentration Leadership, études politiques, évaluation et programmes d'études. Avant ses études à l'Université d'Ottawa, Alaa a obtenu une licence ès arts avec mention de l'Université Carleton, avec une spécialisation en études sur l'enfance et une mineure en psychologie. Pendant ses études à Carleton, Alaa a réalisé un projet de thèse intitulé "Gaining Insights into the School Experiences of Refugee Children through Art and Accompanied Narratives". Cette recherche a été saluée par Carleton et lui a valu de remporter le prix du Provost Scholar Award 2019 et le Grand Champion Future Thinker Award lors de la Capital Research Day. Alaa continue à enquêter et à valoriser les expériences vécues par les enfants et les jeunes dans les écoles dans le cadre de sa thèse de maîtrise qui documente l'expérience vécue des élèves de 9e année dans les centres de tutorat alors qu'ils se préparent à l'examen de mathématiques de l'OQRE.

Since 2015, Michaël has been working as a French immersion teacher in an English-language Catholic high school in Ottawa.

Michaël Boucher

Boucher Michaël

Michaël Boucher is a second-year student enrolled in the Master of Education program (Societies, Cultures and Languages ​​concentration). He holds a BA in History and German Studies from the University of Montreal, as well as a BA in Education from the University of Ottawa. As part of his master’s studies, Michaël is interested in the level of integration of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) in Core French curriculums across Canada.

In February 2014, during the Éducation et historicité en Ontario français Study Day, Michaël presented, alongside Professors Stéphane Lévesque and Jean-Philippe Croteau, the preliminary results of their research on the historical conscience of young Franco-Ontarians. These results were also subsequently shared during the March 2014 Jean-Paul Dionne Symposium. In addition, he presented the preliminary results of his research on the level of integration of the CEFR in Canadian Core French curriculums at the September 2019 EducLang conference.

Since 2015, Michaël has been working as a French immersion teacher in an English-language Catholic high school in Ottawa.

Nicholas Faubert

Faubert Nicholas

Nicholas Faubert holds a bachelor's degree in Public Administration and in Lettres françaises. He has just started his M.A.Ed. in Leadership, evaluation, programs and educational policies. He was part of the Regional Mentoring program at the University of Ottawa for three years. His research interests are centered around student experience in first-year of University of students coming from francophone minority regions.

Bianca Jeanveaux

Jeanveaux Bianca

Bianca Jeanveaux completed her Honours Bachelor in Second-Language Teaching, teaching French as a Second Language. She is now a first-year master student in Education, concentration Societies, Cultures and Languages. Her research interests are centred around the experience of non-native aspiring teachers in the French Teacher Education program.

Chuan Liu

Chuan Liu

Chuan Liu is a graduate student at the University of Ottawa. His current research concentration is regarding teaching English as a second language. He is not only a pioneer of integration of interdisciplinary literacy in language learning in China but also a practitioner of teaching ESL students for almost 10 years.

Prior to his graduate study, he worked as an English Curriculum Manager in OneSmart (NYSE: ONE), when he led his team to have developed three levels of courses for more than 1000 preschoolers in China. While he was working for EEO, he was allocated to Warsaw, Poland to set up the first European Online Teaching Base in the world. He recruited and trained more than 60 teachers to deliver online classes through an innovative online classroom called ClassIn. He worked as a regional director in RISE (NASDAQ: REDU). He is also a TESOL certificate holder and a member of PERC, an affiliate of ER Foundation.

He is now running an official account to build up a non-profit platform for Chinese teachers to explore the theories and methodologies of integrated language learning and teaching.

Brigitte Murray

Brigitte Murray

Brigitte Murray est titulaire d’une maîtrise en éducation (M. A.) de l’Université d’Ottawa. Sa directrice de thèse était la professeure Marie-Josée Vignola. Ses champs d’intérêt sont la littératie, la didactique des langues, le français écrit en langue première et en langue seconde, le processus d’écriture et le rapport à l’écrit. Elle s’intéresse également à l’histoire de l’éducation ainsi qu’à la francophonie. Tout en préparant son projet doctoral, qui alliera ses domaines de prédilection, soit l’éducation et la francophonie, elle complète une formation en études des francophonies à l’Université d’Ottawa et a entrepris en janvier 2020 une maîtrise au Département de français de l'Université d'Ottawa sous la direction de la professeure Lucie Hotte.

Lesya Granger

Granger Lesya

As coordinator of the International and Indigenous Languages Program, mandated by the Ontario Ministry of Education, Lesya Alexandra Granger works with over 350 teachers, administrators and instructors to offer 6000 elementary students and 300 secondary students the opportunity to become literate in one or more of the 20 languages taught at Éducation permanente of the Ottawa French Catholic school board, le Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-est (CECCE). Lesya’s research interests focus on administrators' roles in international languages curriculum and program implementation, particularly in the area of plurilingualism and plurilingual education.  Having worked in heritage and international languages for over 25 years and in education administration for over a decade, Lesya has presented locally and internationally on linking education research and theory to practice.

In partnership with other researchers, education practitioners and the Ministry of Education, she designs curriculum and policy documents related to International and Heritage Language Education. Lesya is currently completing her M.A. at the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, with a concentration in Societies, Cultures and Languages.

Recent publication:

Granger, L.A. (2018). Encouraging the use and activation of heritage languages in the broader education system. In P. P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (eds.), Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education, Springer International Handbooks of Education, pp. 333-354.

Mojgan Rousatei

Rousatei Mojgan

Mojgan Rousatei holds a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Langauge and pursues her second master’s degrees in Education with the concentration on societies, languages and cultures at the University of Ottawa. She is an English teacher with 15 years of experience in teaching English as a second/foreign language. She also holds the CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching Adults) and TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test) certificate from Cambridge University.

Dima Zaid-Kilani

Zaid-Kilani Dima

Dima Zaid-Kilani is a first year Master of Education student concentrating on Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Education in University of Ottawa. She holds Teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language certificate from Algonquin College of Art and Technology, and bachelor’s in Business Administration for the University of Applied Science. Dima is also an active ESL teacher at Algonquin College, La Cité collégiale, and the Ottawa Catholic School Board.

Her research interests are in Culture, Second Language Education, and Feminism.

Ph.D students

Amanda Battistuzzi

Amanda Battistuzzi

Amanda a complété une maîtrise en éducation, se concentrant sur l'éducation et langues secondes à l'Université d'Ottawa. Elle est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en littératures anglaises et en français langue seconde, ainsi que d'un baccalauréat en éducation. Son expérience de l'enseignement comprend des cours du français de base de niveau moyen à supérieur. Ses intérêts de recherche portent sur la formation des enseignants de français de base et leurs expériences d'apprentissage des langues.

Robert Grant

Rob Grant

Robert Grant est un étudiant en première année de doctorat en éducation. Il détient deux maîtrises : l'une en enseignement (qui lui permet d'obtenir l'agrément de l'Ordre des enseignantes et des enseignants de l'Ontario) et l'autre en éducation, où il s'est concentré sur l'enseignement des langues secondes. Il a obtenu un baccalauréat en enseignement des langues secondes (DLS) à l'Université d'Ottawa. De manière générale, il s'intéresse aux moyens de rendre la classe de français langue seconde (FLS) plus queer, à l'hétéronormativité dans le matériel pédagogique, ainsi qu'à l'identité et aux croyances des enseignants concernant la mise en œuvre de contenus queer dans leurs cours de langue. Il a quelques années d'expérience en enseignement du FLS, tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger.

Heather Koziol

Heather Koziol est candidate au doctorat à la faculté d’Éducation (Concentration: Sociétés, Cultures et Langues) sous la direction de Professeure Carole Fleuret. Elle détient une maîtrise en enseignement (M.A.T.) avec une spécialisation en études françaises et francophones de l'Université de Massachusetts Amherst ainsi qu’un baccalauréat en langue et littérature françaises de l’Université de Vermont. Elle a enseigné aux Etats-Unis et en France, et elle a de l’expérience avec des élèves de tous les âges. En tant qu’enseignante de langues (français, espagnol, et anglais comme langue étrangère), ses intérêts de recherche portent sur le translanguaging et la place des langues maternelles des élèves allophones en cours de langue.

Shelina Adatia

Adatia Shelina

Shelina Adatia is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. Her concentration is in Societies, Cultures and Languages and her research will examine the inclusion of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse learners in French Immersion. Shelina obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts in the French Teaching Specialization (FTS) program at the University of Waterloo. As the FTS program was a concurrent education program, Shelina also obtained her Bachelor of Education and is a qualified Ontario teacher at the intermediate and secondary levels. She then went on to complete her Masters in Education at the University of Ottawa after which Shelina worked as a secondary-level French International Baccalaureate teacher in Ottawa. She then completed the Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP) in London, England at the Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute of Education where she obtained her Master of Arts in Muslim Societies and Civilizations and her Master of Teaching. Upon completion of STEP, Shelina worked as a secondary Religious Education teacher with the Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board for Quebec and the Maritimes. She is currently on a leave of absence as she pursues her Ph.D.

Marie-Pier Bastien

Bastien Marie-Pier

Marie-Pier holds two bachelor degrees, including one in physical activity and one in education. Having decided to pursue a research career in social sciences, she just finished her master in education and started her PhD in the same field. In the continuity of her master’s work, her PhD thesis will focus on young Hispanic students.

Her master’s thesis focused on writing socialization and on the influence of family literacy practices of Hispanic students in first year of elementary school in the Outaouais region. In other words, she sought to describe the initial knowledge of 10 Hispanic participants and to explore their family literacy practices in order to gain a better understanding of their apprehension of written French. Because very little research in Quebec, and more precisely in the Outaouais region, has focused on this group despite its fragility regarding academic success, Marie-Pier considers her research to be important, namely because of its social impact. A better exploration of the writing socialization of Hispanic students schooled in French allowed her to come up with didactic and pedagogic strategies that will foster their apprehension of the language of education.

Taciana de Lira e Silva

Taciana de Lira e Silva

Taciana is a Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Education with a concentration in Societies, Languages and Cultures, at the University of Ottawa. She holds a M.Ed. in intercultural education, from Queen’s University, a M.S.T from SUNY Potsdam, and a LL.D from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Brazil). She has been an elementary Core French teacher for eight years and has incorporated a cultural approach to her practice.

In January 2017, she presented at the ICSEI conference and talked about Global Education in the FSL classroom. During the school year 2016-2017, with the support of ETFO, she did a research with her Grade 5/6 students to investigate ways in which awareness and acceptance of multiculturalism could be developed amongst junior students in the Core French classroom.

Her research interest is Newcomers and Global citizenship in the Second Language Classroom.

Adam Kaszuba

Adam est candidat au doctorat dans la concentration Sociétés, langues, et cultures à la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université d’Ottawa. Dans le cadre de sa recherche, il se focalise sur les modèles de programmes de formation à l’enseignement du français langue seconde. En tant que pédagogue, il vise à intégrer les approches plurilingues dans les cours du FLS à tous les niveaux. Adam détient un baccalauréat en arts de l’Université de Toronto où il s’est spécialisé en linguistique française. Par la suite, il a obtenu une maîtrise en enseignement, un programme aboutissant également à lui accorder le titre professionnel Enseignant agréé de l’Ontario. Il a quelques années d’expérience en enseignement dans les écoles internationales.

Marie-Phillip Mathieu

Mathieu Marie-Phillip

Marie-Philip holds a B.A. in translation and an M.A. in Spanish from University of Ottawa. Her PhD research, under the supervision of Professor Carole Fleuret, focuses on the role of transfer in the acquisition of French as a second language by Spanish speakers. Marie-Philip also teaches Spanish at Universidad autótoma de México in Hull.

Leilah Mbida

Leilah Mbida

Je m’appelle Leilah Mbida, titulaire d’une maitrise en sciences de l’éducation obtenue en France et d’un diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées en technologies éducatives de l’université Laval. J’ai obtenu mon baccalauréat en éducation à l’université d’Ottawa et je débute un doctorat dans la concentration Sociétés, Cultures et langues. Je suis une pédagogue œuvrant depuis plus de 15 ans dans l'enseignement et dans la formation professionnelle dans un environnement multinational en Afrique et en Europe. Mes travaux de recherche, sous la direction de Carole Fleuret, porteront sur les ateliers de lecture en contexte plurilingue et multiculturel chez les élèves fréquentant les écoles de langue française. Je cherche à fournir des réponses positives à la diversité et à atténuer les facteurs qui peuvent contribuer à marginaliser certains élèves.

Catherine Mongrain

Mongrain Catherine

Catherine teaches beginner to advanced French as a second language, Phonetics and Canadian Culture courses at the University level. She also teaches English as a second language and Music.

She holds a Master's degree in Bilingualism studies as well as a Bachelor's degree in Second Language Teaching and a minor in Music from the University of Ottawa. She is also a Ph.D student in education in the field of second language teaching.

Irena Lanqing Qin

Lanqing Qin is a first year Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Education. Lanqing's research interest is located at the intersection of English language teaching (ELT) and racialized discourses.

Her major-research paper examined the representations of 'native speakers' on an ELT website in China's context through critical discourse analysis (CDA). In continuity of her master's work, her Ph.D. thesis will expand to a larger number of ELT websites.

Cameron Smith

Cameron Smith est un doctorant en éducation (sociétés, cultures et langues) à l'université d'Ottawa. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise en recherche d'éducation de l'université de Calgary et a obtenu sa BEd et son baccalauréat à l'université Brock. Fort de son expérience d'enseignant de français de base en langue seconde, Cam s'intéresse principalement à la formation des enseignants, à l'enseignement du français en langue seconde, et aux technologies éducatives. La recherche doctorale de Cam, financée par le CRSH, explore l'utilisation de la technologie éducative par les enseignants de FLS, et le développement d'une communauté de pratique pour aider ces enseignants à améliorer leur pratique.

Nancy Crépeau

Crépeau Nancy

Nancy Crépeau holds a bachelor degree in preschool and primary school education, and a master degree in education. He master’s thesis focused on reading strategies by First Nation students at the beginning of their university training. Nancy has worked in the education field during over ten years at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue as an educational counsellor, research agent, lecturer, service coordinator and First Nation student recruitment officer. She is currently pursuing a PhD in education at the University of Ottawa, where her research focuses on how First Nation children schooled in French within Algonquin communities learn to read when their heritage language is valued.

Publications

Articles avec comité de lecture

  • Crépeau, N. et Fleuret, C. (2018). L’enseignement du français chez les Premières Nations d’hier à aujourd’hui : défis didactiques, pratiques pédagogiques et compétence plurilingue. Revue de langage, d’identité, de diversité et d’appartenance2(1), 101‑122. Repéré à http://bild-lida.ca/journal/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/volume_2_1_2018_Crepeau_Fleuret.pdf
  • Crépeau, N. et Fleuret, C. (accepté). Conception et mise à l’essai d’un programme de métaphonologie bilingue (français-anicinabemowin ) en milieu scolaire anicinabe auprès d’élèves du premier cycle du primaire. Revue de la persévérance et de la réussite scolaire chez les Premiers Peuples3(1).
  • Crépeau, N. et Fleuret, C. (2017). Une étude descriptive et exploratoire des stratégies de lecture d’étudiants autochtones en début de formation universitaire au premier cycle. Cahier du CIÉRA, (15), 35‑63. Repéré à https://www.ciera.ulaval.ca/sites/ciera.ulaval.ca/files/4_-_crepeau_et_fleuret.pdf

Domínguez Mariana

Mariana Domínguez holds a M.A. in Applied Linguistics and a B.A. in Communication. She has taught English as a Foreign Language and Spanish for Foreigners for more than ten years. She has worked as a freelance workshop designer for the Programa de Desarrollo Cultural Maya  [Maya Cultural Development Program] in the Yucatan, creating and coordinating a series of workshops aimed at training new generations of bilingual Maya-Spanish speakers in the use of new technology and mass media. More recently, she has collaborated with the Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, coordinating an intensive Yucatec Maya Summer Program for graduate students.

Her research interests are bilingual education, indigenous language pedagogy, language teacher training, and academic literacy development. She is currently starting her PhD in Education at the University of Ottawa, in the Societies, Cultures and Languages concentration

Zinat Goodarzi

Goodarzi Zinat

Zinat holds Master’s degrees in English Education and Applied Linguistics. She has over fifteen years of experience in teaching English for Academic Purposes at post-secondary institutions in Canada and abroad.

Since 2014, she has been teaching as a part-time language instructor in the English Intensive Program at the University of Ottawa. She is also a certified Canadian Language Benchmarks assessor.

Zinat is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her doctoral research focuses on academic writing and developing researcher identity in higher education.

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Kelly Holmes

Kelly Holmes is a first year Doctoral student who hopes to research adult English language learners in Canada. In particular, Kelly would like to explore the programming available and administrative avenues to facilitate students' transition from informal language learning into formal secondary and post-secondary studies. This will include discussions of citizenship, language policy, administration, and critical pedagogy in ESL programming. Kelly has extensive administrative experience within post-secondary institutions and hopes to provide practical research frameworks for current administration issues.

Angela Joncy Juliet

Joncy Juliet Angela

Angela Asir Daniel is a Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.  She holds an MA in English Literature and an M.Phil. in English Language Teaching. She has over 5 years of ESL teaching experience in Canada and abroad.

Her doctoral research focuses on teacher knowledge and integration of technology in English language classrooms in a developing country context.

Elmira Peyghami

Peyghami Elmira

Elmira is a Ph.D. student in education, societies, cultures and languages at the University of Ottawa. She holds a master's degree in French language teaching and a bachelor’s degree in French language translation, also a certificate of the English learning short program. She also obtained her teaching permit from the Quebec Ministry of Education.

She has more than 10 years of experience in teaching French as a foreign/second language in institutes and schools, as well as a university in Iran. She also taught in the FSL immersion program at a language school in Montreal for a year and half and has been teaching French language support courses in various elementary schools in Montreal and has been a research assistant at the University of Ottawa for three years She has a good knowledge of the six levels of the CEFR’s communicative language activities, due to her master's thesis, as well as a good teaching experience in the preparatory courses for the TEF, TCF, TFI, DELF and DALF examinations.

Her research interests focus on the integration of information and communication technologies, more specifically the effect of video games in teaching and learning French as a second language among newcomers to Canada.

Publication

Peyghami,E. (2012). Étude des deux activités communicatives langagières du Cadre européen commun de référence dans les cours du FLE en Iran, Journal de Roshd FLT103, V.26, p.56-64

Farzaneh Salehi Kahrizsangi

Salehi Kahrizsangi Farzaneh

Farzaneh Salehi is a PhD student in Teaching and Learning at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. She has seven years of teaching experience at various universities and language institutes in Iran. She holds a bachelor degree in English literature and Masters in English language teaching.  

Her research interests are TEFL/TESL, metaphor understanding and hermeneutics.

Sobhnanmanesh Alireza

Alireza Sobhanmanesh is a Ph.D Candidate in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, and a Sessional Faculty Member in the English Language Learning Program (ELL) at Centennial College in Toronto (Ontario).

His thesis research focuses on the motivation of international students in the ELL program at Centennial College, and his research interests include learner and teacher engagement in language learning programs, emotions in language learning, the role of learning environments in language learning, complexity theory and participatory action research.

Gene Vasilopoulos

Vasilopoulos Gene

Gene is a Doctoral Candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. She has over a decade of experience in English Language Education/English for Academic Purposes instruction at post-secondary institutions in Canada and abroad. Most recently, her teaching and research centres on international education in Canada.

Current projects include international students and academic writing pedagogy in academic bridging programs, and international study abroad for English as a foreign language teacher professional development.

Her publications appear in The Journal of Language, Identity and Education, Journal of International Students, and the Canadian Journal of New Scholars in Education.