Shelley Taylor
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 Shelley K. Taylor,
PhD, is an Assistant Professor who holds a joint appointment
in the Faculty of Education and the Department of French at
the University of Western Ontario.
She teaches the
following graduate courses in the Faculty of Education and the
Department of French: “1st & 2nd language
acquisition,” “2nd language teaching & learning,” “Bilinguisme,”
“Langues minoritaires,” & “Minority language issues in
education.”
She is an
English/French/Danish trilingual with strong interests in
language learning and teaching. She learned Spanish, Russian,
German,
Hebrew & Turkish in natural and classroom environments,
and draws on these experiences in her research and graduate
teaching. Her research is primarily qualitative with a penchant
for ethnographic research involving school-aged minority
language students in programs designed with different student
populations in mind; hence, the title of her PhD thesis:
“Trilingualism by design? An investigation into the educational
experience of Kurdish children schooled in Denmark.” Her broader
research interests include issues of language, identity & power,
bilingual education, content-based instruction, minority
studies, ESL, & FSL.
She may be contacted at
taylor@uwo.ca.
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