Barbara McNeil, University of Regina

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A study of the influences of teacher preparation and transition to school communities on pre-service teachers' understandings and constructions of English language variation
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$24,263

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A study of the influences of teacher preparation and transition to school communities on pre-service teachers' understandings and constructions of English language variation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sterzuk, Andrea J.

Keywords: standard language ideologies; educator linguistic bias; postcolonial Englishes; global Englishes; disinventing languages; deficit views; teacher expectations; literacy education; teacher education; pre-service to in-service transitioning

$24,263

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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