Maria Chiras
Mcgill University
Maria Chiras is an English instructor at an English college in Montreal, Quebec. Her research interests emerge from her own educational experiences as a multilingual student in Montreal, Quebec. Currently, she has been pursuing doctoral research at McGill University, in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her current research focuses on the role of multilingualism in students’ experiences with language education and writing and the implications of these experiences for student persistence in Quebec higher education, in particular, the interaction between cultural identity, language, and writing.
Sessions in which Maria Chiras attends
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
How Effective Are Monolingual Language, Writing, and Assessment Practices for Multilingual Students in English courses in College? An Exploration of Multilingual Pedagogical Perspectives (Maria Chiras, McGill University, Canada)
30 minutes,
4:00 PM EDT
- 4:30 PM EDT
Part of:
Session 3 (Plurilingualism) - Session Chair: Angelica Galante
Talk
Session 3 (Plurilingualism) - Session Chair: Angelica Galante
1 hour 30 minutes,
4:00 PM EDT
- 5:30 PM EDT
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
“I subtitle myself”: The case of ESL student tutors and tutees’ plurilingual pedagogical strategies in a francophone college (John Wayne Dela Cruz, McGill University, Canada)
30 minutes,
4:30 PM EDT
- 5:00 PM EDT
Part of:
Session 3 (Plurilingualism) - Session Chair: Angelica Galante
Talk
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Why separate languages in the classroom if they are inseparable in our brain? The case for plurilingual pedagogy (Angelica Galante, Maria Chiras, John Wayne Dela Cruz & Lana Zeaiter, McGill University, Canada)
30 minutes,
5:00 PM EDT
- 5:30 PM EDT
Part of:
Session 3 (Plurilingualism) - Session Chair: Angelica Galante
Talk