Conference Agenda

Session

Language teaching and learning, diversity and inclusion

Time:

Wednesday, 17/June/2026:

3:15pm - 5:15pm

Location: TB210

Presentations

3:15pm - 3:45pm

Refugee-background students in Canadian French immersion programs: Creating equitable language-in-education policy

Stephen Davis

University of Regina, Canada

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Challenging Inequities in French Immersion: Beliefs, Discourse, and Barriers to Inclusion

Tamara Sorenson Duncan, Alexandra Arraiz Matute, Jacob Williams, Simon Velasquez Matijasevic, Caitlin Manuel

Carleton, Canada

4:15pm - 4:45pm

The case of faculty-based professional development characteristics centering heritage language learners

Eddy Enriquez Arana

Montgomery College, United States of America

4:45pm - 5:15pm

Unintended consequences: Immigration policy change and damage to the field of EAP in Canada

Jennifer MacDonald¹, Jennifer Walsh Marr²

¹Jennifer MacDonald Education, Canada; ²University of British Colombia, Canada