Heather Lotherington
Professor, Multilingual Education
| Headline: | Educator |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.yorku.ca/heatherl/index.htm |
| Industries: | Education, Internet |
| Skills: | English, Languages, Writing |
| Location: | Toronto, Canada |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Visas: | Canadian citizen |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | multimodal literacies |
| Schools: | Carleton University, University of Lancaster, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto |
FULL BIO
Professor, Multilingual Education, York University (1999 ->)
Visiting Professor, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg, Germany (Spring, 2011)
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Education and Professional Studies, King’s College, University of London (Fall, 2009)
Executive Director (.5) Language and Society Centre, and Lecturer in Linguistics (.5) Department of Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1996-1999)
Senior Lecturer in Education, Department of Education and Psychology, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
(1989-1995)
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Toronto |
| Time period: | 1989 |
| Degree: | DPhil |
| University: | University of Lancaster |
| Time period: | 1983 |
| Degree: | MA |
| University: | Carleton University |
| Time period: | 1977 |
| Degree: | Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language |
| University: | University of New Brunswick |
| Time period: | 1973 |
| Degree: | English literature; Spanish studies, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | 28 published articles |
| Papers: | over 100 papers presented at local, regional, national and international meetings including invited plenary keynotes |
| Books: | Lotherington, H. (in press 2011). Pedagogy of multiliteracies: Rewriting Goldilocks. New York, NY: Routledge.
Lotherington, H. (2000). What’s bilingual education all about? A guide to language learning in today’s schools. Melbourne: Language Australia. Beligan, A., Clyne, M. & Lotherington, H. (1999). Growing up with English plus. (video) Melbourne: Language Australia. |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | dance; drumming; reading; cooking |
| Memberships: | Listed in who’s who, academic keys http://education.academickeys.com/whoswho.php
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) International Reading Association (IRA) Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages TESOL American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL) TESL Ontario TESL Canada The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CSALT) The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) The Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (CACS) Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada (LLRC) |
| Awards: | 2010 Toronto District School Board Award for program/project excellence to the York University–Joyce Public School partnership for school projects
Mentor to The Premier’s 2010 Award for Team of the year awarded to teachers and support staff of Joyce Pubic School Semi-finalist (top 30) in Ontario’s Best Lecturer Competition: TV Ontario: Big Ideas, 2006: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?b... Mentor to project included in “The Joyce Journey”, Joyce Public School, Toronto, National Technology Award (Eastern and Central Canada), The Learning Partnership, 2006. York University Merit Award (8 times) |
