Words matter. "Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble." -Yehuda Berg Today's discussion, with John Wayne N. dela Cruz, takes a look at what we know about effective vocabulary instruction, the difference in student gains between implicit and explicit vocabulary instruction and how do we choose the words to teach.
John Wayne N. dela Cruz
Ph.D. candidate Educational Studies (Language Acquisition)Department of Integrated Studies in Education |
McGill University john.delacruz@mail.mcgill.ca
https://johnwaynedelacruz.wixsite.com/jwdcAAAL GSC
Event Planning Sub-Committee Member
Plurilingual Lab's GradTalks Organizer
Belonging, Identity, Language, Diversity Research Group
Recent/forthcoming publications
dela Cruz, J. W. N. (2022). Plurilingual or not plurilingual? Plurilingual competence and identity of Canadian EAL peers in a francophone post-secondary context. OLBI Journal/Cahiers de l’OLBI, 12(1), 139–160. https://doi.org/10.18192/olbij.v12i1.6075
dela Cruz, J.W.N. (in press). Plurilingual strategies for teaching pronunciation in TESOL: A research-based and action-oriented approach. In K. Raza, D. Reynolds, & C. Coombe (Eds.), Handbook for multilingual TESOL in practice. Springer.
dela Cruz, J. W. N. (in press). Teaching and assessing plurilingually using the CEFR: Towards linguistically inclusive additional language instruction. Concordia Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 7.
dela Cruz, J. W. N. (2022). “I subtitle myself”: Affordances and challenges of Canadian EAL students’ plurilingual learning strategies in a francophone college. TESL Canada Journal, 38(2), 36–62. https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v38i2.1356
Chung, R., & dela Cruz, J. W. N. (in press). Pedagogies of inclusion must start from within: Self-location, landguaging, and plurilingualism in the “L2” classroom. In A. Charity Hudley, C. Mallinson, & M. Buzcholts (Eds.), Inclusion in linguistics. Oxford University Press.
Galante, A., & dela Cruz, J. W. N. (2021). Plurilingual and pluricultural as the new normal: An examination of language use and identity in the multilingual city of Montreal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1931244
Galante, A., dela Cruz, J. W. N., Chiras, M., & Zeaiter, L. F. (2022). Challenging monolingual norms: TESL teacher education to advance learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural awareness. In R. Fielding (Ed.), Multilingualism, identity, and interculturality in Education (pp. 91-120). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5848-9_5
Galante, A., Zeaiter, L.F., dela Cruz, J.W.N., Mass, N., Aronson, J., de Oliveira, D.S.A., Teodoro-Torres, J.A. (2023). Digital plurilingual pedagogies in foreign language classes: Empowering language learners to speak in the target language. The Language Learning Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2023.2179654
Galante, A., Chiras, M., dela Cruz, J. W. N., & Zeaiter, L. F. (2022). Plurilingual guide: Implementing critical plurilingual pedagogy in language education. Plurilingual Lab Publishing. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/books/0c483q268?locale=en
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