Leadership Team Members
Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies
Email: xiaoting.li@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/xiaoting-li
Reserach interests: Her research interest is language in interaction and multimodal analysis. She uses the methodology of Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics and multimodal analysis in the study of everyday Mandarin talk-in-interaction. Her research explores how multimodal resources such as lexico-syntax, prosody and embodied actions are used by interactants in organizing turns, sequences and courses of actions in Mandarin conversation.
Faculty of Arts - Psychology
Email: knoels@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/kim-noels
Faculty of Arts - Linguistics
Email: daskalak@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.evangeliadaskalaki.com/
Research interests: Evangelia (Lila) Daskalaki's research focuses on heritage languages: how they are acquired, how they develop, and how they change across generations. In particular, she is interested in the linguistic and environmental factors that affect immigrant children's acquisition of L1/heritage syntax and its interfaces with morphology and discourse-pragmatics.
Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Email: elisabeth.le@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/elisabeth-le
Reserach interests: Elisabeth Le (PhD, 1996) is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. As a discourse analyst, she has worked mostly on media discourse on issues related to international relations, politics and identity. She is now involved in a project exploring variations in belongingness, in particular to the EU.
Faculty of Arts - Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Email: jenniedo@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/jennifer-dailey-ocain
Reserach interests: Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain is a sociolinguist with a research focus on everyday language in use, but always with an eye toward how this use relates to broader social phenomena such as identity, ideology, and globalization. She is currently Professor of German and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies.
Alberta School of Business - Marketing, Business Economics, and Law
Email: sarah.g.moore@ualberta.ca
Links: https://www.ualberta.ca/business/about/contact-us/school-directory/sarah-moore
Reserach interests: The primary focus of my research is on language and communication, both among consumers and between consumers and firms. Within this area, I am particularly interested in word-of-mouth (WOM): consumer-to-consumer communication about experiences with products, brands, or services. My research explores how consumers are influenced by sharing or hearing WOM that contains different linguistic content, as well as how the language used in questions, advertising, and consumer-firm interactions impacts consumers. On the consumer side, I have explored how individuals sharing WOM are influenced by whether or not they explain their experiences (e.g., I loved the dessert because it was chocolatey), and when individuals hearing WOM find explanations helpful, for different types of purchases. On the firm side, I have explored how consumers respond to the use of imperative language in advertising (e.g., Like us on Facebook!), and the use of personal pronouns in customer service interactions (e.g., we vs. I). In other research, I and my co-authors are exploring various other types of language, including swearwords, slang, and emoji.
Current LCC Graduate Student Network Coordinators
Hannah Lam
Hannah Lam is a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Her primary research interests include childhood bi-/multi-lingualism, psycholinguistics, and nominal reference. Before starting her current program, she completed her MPhil at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she wrote her thesis on the simultaneous bilingual acquisition of classifiers and determiners in Cantonese-English toddlers.
Vera Xia
Vera Xia is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on syntactic priming as a form of implicit learning in bilinguals, specifically Mandarin-English heritage speakers and late bilinguals. Before starting at the UofA, she completed an MPhil in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.
Previous LCC Graduate Student Network Coordinators
Kerry Sluchinski
Kerry Sluchinski is a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Her general body of research focuses on the (de/re/co-)construction of identity and the use of referential forms on the Internet in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Her dissertation research focuses on the use of Chinese non-standard third person pronoun ta in Anti and Pro LGBT discourses on the Internet and how ta is used to navigate degrees of (non-)belonging. Kerry also completed her Master of Arts in Chinese Linguistics and Pedagogy at the U of A, where her research focused on the usage of ta as a pragmatic device to increase engagement with social media advertisements through rhetorical move analysis.
Richard Feddersen
Craig St Jean
Craig St. Jean is a PhD student in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on how messaging strategies (particularly message framing) about hearing loss may impact treatment uptake. Prior to joining the U of A, Craig completed a Master's in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University, where his research used the lens of Rhetorical Genre Studies to investigate the role that writing assignment instructions play in undergraduate student's comprehension of writing tasks. Between his degrees, Craig taught English in South Korea and Germany.
LCC Community
Alla Nedashkivska
Faculty of Arts, Modern Language and Cultural Studies
Research Interests: language ideologies, language and media, SLA, language pedagogy, Slavic linguistics, Ukrainian language
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/alla-nedashkivska
Andrea MacLeod
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: communication disorders, children, bilingual, language acquisition, multicultural
https://bilingualacquisition.ca/
Astrid Ensslin
Faculty of Arts, Modern Language and Cultural Studies
Research interests: videogame discourses, digital/social media discourses, language ideologies and metalanguage in the media, language in the media, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, corpora and discourse analysis
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/astrid-ensslin
Benjamin Tucker
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
Research interests: speech science, phonetics, psycholinguistics, language documentation
https://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.c
Christopher Steele
Faculty of Business, Strategic Management and Organization
Research interests: communication, persuasion, and social change; communication and the construction of social reality; communication and collective identity
https://www.ualberta.ca/business/about/contact-us/school-directory/christopher-steele
David Rast III
Faculty of Arts, Psychology
Research interests: social identity, group processes, intergroup relations, leadership
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/david-rast-iii
http://sites.psych.ualberta.ca/rastlab/
Esther Kim
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: communication accessibility, communication disorders, communication supports, language disorders
https://www.ualberta.ca/rehabilitation/about-us/contact-us/faculty-directory/esther-kim
Evangelia Daskalaki
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
Research interests: heritage language acquisition, cross-linguistic influence, language typology, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, inter-generational language change
https://www.evangeliadaskalaki.com/
Heather Graves
Faculty of Arts, English and Film Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/heather-graves
Herbert Colston
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/herbert-colston
Hongliang Fu
Faculty of Education, Elementary Education
Research interests: language, bilingualism, cultural diversity, children
Johanne Paradis
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
Research Interests: child bilingual development, individual differences, second language acquisition, heritage language acquisition
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/johanne-paradis
Jorge Rosés Labrada
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
Research interests: indigenous languages, language and identity, narratives and folklore, interaction, research methodologies
https://directory.ualberta.ca/person/jrosesla
K.B. Koo
Faculty of Business, marketing
Research interests: phatic communication, textual paralanguage, emoji, computer-mediated communication
https://www.ualberta.ca/business/phd/kb-koo
Kristan Marchak
Campus Saint-Jean
Research interests: language acquisition, semantics, identity
https://www.ualberta.ca/campus-saint-jean/a-propos/repertoire-du-personnel/fsj/kristan-marchak
Lucie Moussu
Faculty of Arts, English and Film Studies | Interdisciplinary Studies
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/lucie-moussu
Martin Guardado
Faculty of Education, English Language School Extension
Research interests: heritage language socialization, teaching English as an additional language, identity and cosmopolitanism/global competence, short-term study abroad
https://www.ualberta.ca/extension/information/people/faculty-members/martin-guardado
Melissa Skoczylas
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: developmental language disorder, literacy, narratives, assessment
https://www.ualberta.ca/rehabilitation/about-us/contact-us/faculty-directory/melissa-skoczylas
Sally Rice
Faculty of Arts, Linguistics
Research interests: multimodal interaction, indigenous language documentation, grammaticalization and lexicalization, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/sally-rice
Trelani Chapman
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Research interests: literacy, language, preschool, parent-child, assessment
https://www.ualberta.ca/rehabilitation/about-us/contact-us/faculty-directory/trelani-chapman
Vern Glaser
Faculty of Business, Strategic Management and Organization
Research Interests: strategy, organizational culture, family business, analytics, routines
https://www.ualberta.ca/business/about/contact-us/school-directory/vern-glaser
William Dunn
Faculty of Education, Secondary Education
Research interests: second language education, second language teacher education, task-based language teaching (TBLT), sociocultural theory and second language learning
https://www.ualberta.ca/education/about-us/professor-profiles/william-dunn
Xavier Gutiérrez
Faculty of Arts, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Research Interests: second language education, second language teacher education, task-based language teaching, metalinguistic reflection, knowledge representations of language
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/xavier-gutierrez
Yoshi Ono
Faculty of Arts, East Asian Studies
Research Interests: usage-based linguistics, language documentation, Japanese, Miyako
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/yoshi-ono
https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/sdrs/
Yvonne Lam
Faculty of Arts, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Research interests: language ideologies, speaker identities, minority and indigenous languages, language shift and maintenance, multilingualism
https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/yvonne-lam