Professor Shelley Taylor

Shelley K. Taylor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education.

She teaches the following graduate courses in the Faculty of Education and the Department of French: "1^st & 2^nd language acquisition,” "2^nd 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.