Simon Fraser University
Dr. Steve Marshall
Steve Marshall Faculty Photo Assistant Professor

Steve Marshall’s Personal Web Site:

http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/stevem/

I have two main areas of research interest that can be classified together under the broad title “Learning Through Transitions” : Sociolinguistics (how languages, migration and identities impact upon learning in social and educational contexts), and Academic Literacy in Higher Education, with a focus on students making the transition from secondary to higher education.

Email: sj_marshall@sfu.ca

2005 PhD, Sociolinguistics University of London
2002 – 2003 RSA Dip. TEFLA [equivalent]. University of London
Aug 1996 M.A., TESOL University of London
Sep 1993 M.A., Area Studies (Latin America) University of London
1989 RSA Cert. TEFLA. International House, Piccadilly, London
1987 B.A. (Hons), Spanish Studies University of Manchester

Teaching

I am currently coordinating, and teaching on, SFU’s Foundations of Academic Literacy Course FAL X-99. The course aims to help students to develop their academic literacy skills and to apply them in their different learning contexts.

I also teach a special topics course, Educ 712 Academic Writing for Graduate Students

I taught English for Academic Purposes at University College London full-time for 12 years. During that time I coordinated and taught on UCL’s Academic Writing programs for learners with English as an additional language.

Publications/Selected Publications

Peer reviewed book chapters “Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia: reflexivity and knowledgeability in constructions of Catalan”, in C. Mar-Molinero & M. Stewart (2006) Globalization and Spanish: macro and micro perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. Peer reviewed conference proceedings

Marshall, S. (2007) ‘New Latino Diaspora and New Zones of Language Contact: a Social Constructionist Analysis of Spanish Speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia’. In Selected Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, ed. Jonathan Holmquist, Augusto Lorenzino, and Lotfi Sayahi, 150-161. Somerville MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Research and Development Projects

2006 – 2008: “Writing through transitions: understanding the needs of learners writing in English as an additional language at SFU”. Funded by Learning and Instructional Development Centre, SFU

2006 – 2008: “Foundational Academic Literacy Development: a pilot study of learner contexts and perceptions of progress”. Funded by SFU President’s Research Grant.

2006 – 2008 “Academic Literacy Development: a comparative study of M.Ed. students from Thailand, Laos and Cambodia”. Funded by International Programs, Faculty of Education, SFU.

Public Presentations/Conferences

June, 2007: Colloque International DILTEC, Transmission/appropriation des langues et construction des identités plurilingues. Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle; ‘Langues et identités dans les interactions entre les minorités allochtones et autochtones: essentialisme, appropriation, et multiplicité en Catalogne’.

April, 2007: American Association of Applied Linguistics, Costa Mesa, California; “Language, migration and identity: the transitional agencies of Latino new migrants in Catalonia”.

July 2006: Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Ireland; “Latin Americans in Catalonia: allochthonous Spanish-speakers constructing Catalan”.

May 2006: The Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW), York University, Toronto “Re-problematising assumptions about knowledge, writing, and learning: Writing-Intensive Learning at Simon Fraser UniverCity”: co-presenting.

April 2006: Third International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics, Temple University, Philadelphia; “New Latino diaspora and new zones of language contact: the case of Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia”.

April 2004: Second Symposium of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Southampton, UK; “Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia: conflicting constructions of speaking, and being spoken to, in Catalan”.

June 2003: The Second Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary; “A diagnostic, discipline-centred approach to process writing: meeting the needs of the EAP writer in a multi-faculty university (UCL)”.

April 2003: British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) conference 2003 Developing Academic Literacy, University of Southampton, UK; “Meeting the needs of the EAP writer in a multi-faculty university: academic writing at University College London”.

Leadership, Faculty Service, Community Service

Member of SFU’s Retention Committee, Retention 101

Member of SFU’s Library and Learning Commons Advisory Committee

Member of SFU’s International Teaching Assistants Program Advisory Committee

Last Updated
May 1, 2009
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