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Research and scholarly work

L₂RIC has been involved in research and scholarly work in various second language contexts for many years. Currently, the institute is involved in four major initiatives:

1. Official Languages Education Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage
2. Other current scholarly initiatives
3. Graduate student research
4. Research and scholarly activity (publications, presentations)

Official Languages in Education Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage

Several classroom-based research projects are sponsored through the Official Languages in Education Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The following projects are part of L₂RIC’s action plan for 2019-2023:

1. Exploration of new trends in content-based language teaching
2. Teaching and assessment in second language contexts
3. Intercultural, linguistic, and pedagogical competencies and second language teacher identity.

Meet the researchers

Other current scholarly initiatives

FSL Teacher Education Project "Identifying Requirements and Gaps in French as a Second Language (FSL) Teacher Education: Recommendations and Guidelines"

In 2020, the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) launched a two year research project that aimed to identify ways to better equip new FSL teachers for success in the early stages of their careers. The project was conducted by the FSL Teacher Education Consortium, which comprises researchers from L2RIC, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa. Learn more.

Graduate student research

Graduate student research at the MEd and PhD levels is conducted under the guidance of L₂RIC faculty. Recently completed graduate student research:

PhD dissertations

• Hélène Devarennes: Understanding educator, parent, and community expectations in a First Nations school context (2018).
• Karla Culligan: An exploration of French immersion students' communication during collaborative mathematics problem-solving tasks (2017).
• Josée Le Bouthillier: La construction de savoirs liés à l’écriture : une étude ethnographique en 7e année de l’immersion précoce (2016).

Master's theses and reports

• Natasha Quiring: Promoting oral language development in the primary classroom: A focus on New Brunswick’s French immersion program (Master's report, 2020).
• Andrea Dias: Understanding the settlement experiences of newcomer adult EAL students as they seek belonging within their new communities in urban New Brunswick.
• Janic Maryse VanSnick: A reading intervention in a N.B. grade 6 post intensive French classroom: An action research study.
• Nooshin Siami: Toward an understanding of language teacher well-being: a conceptual analysis of positive intelligence through the lens of perma.
• Kathy Whynot: Affirming identity in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms: The role of self in the understanding of equity (Master's report, 2019).
• Ryan O'Shea: Portfolio-based language assessment: perspective of newcomer adult english second language learners (Master's thesis, 2017).

Research and scholarly activity

Every two years, L₂RIC publishes a report that describes in detail the research projects and other scholarly and professional activities undertaken by the institute's team members.

• 2021 - 2023 Biennial Report
• 2019 - 2021 Biennial Report
• 2017 – 2019 Biennial Report
• 2015 – 2017 Biennial Report
• 2013 – 2015 Biennial Report
• 2011 – 2013 Biennial Report

L2RIC UNB scholar research repository

L₂RIC publications