Researcher

Dr. Shelley K. Taylor, PhD

Associate Professor

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.