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FACULTY OF
Education

Marie J. Myers

Professor of Applied Linguistics/Language and Communication, Graduate Faculty
BA, MA, Doct III c (Strasbourg)

Contact Information

Room: A210
Phone: 613-533-3032
Email: myersmj@queensu.ca
Web: http://post.queensu.ca/~myersmj

Curriculum Vitae

Fields

Cognitive / Curriculum / Cultural studies

Research Interests

  • Language for specific purposes
  • Psychology of language, communication and pedagogical intervention
  • Cultural Studies including Cultural Psychology
  • Pragmalinguistics and Sociopragmatics

Current Graduate Students

  • Monica Brannan
  • Charles Enyana
  • Jane Etherington
  • Gloria Thomas (Committee)
  • Anna Zyuzin (Committee)

Recent Activities

  • on-going research on intercultural sensitivity,
  • 2 research contracts with Mouton De Gruyter on intercultural communication and language for content teaching (language use in science)
  • Partnerships with Université Catholique de Paris colleague; University of Potchefsrom, South Africa.

Working Groups

Scientific Communities

  • AFDECE
  • ICONTE
  • ICEEPSY

Reviewer and on Editorial Board

  • ICEEPSY
  • InPACT-psychology

Refereed Publications in 2011

Forthcoming: Evaluating creativity and innovation in second language teachers' discourse, with Peter Lang Publishers

Forthcoming: Intercultural communication. Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Science, Mouton De Gruyter

Forthcoming: Language for Specific Purposes: language use in science. Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Science, Mouton de Gruyter.

Accepted: Transition strategies for newcomers to the French School Milieu in Ontario, LICEJ

Submitted: Improving teacher practices to promote the integration of newcomers, Elsevier Science

Published

Questions de representations : les nouveaux arrivants de langue française en Ontario. De Fontenay, Groux, Leidelinger (Dir) L’Harmattan, 191-206

Interpénétration dans la pratique professionnelle, Education Comparée, 179-190.

Effectiveness in dialogic language use despite deviations. /Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 12,/ 248-254.

Developing Professional Competence through Re-alignment of Knowledge/. Occasional Papers in Education & Lifelong Learning: An International Journal (OPELL), 4,/ (1-2), 119-129.//

The Role Played by Communication: Follow-up on the Recommendations Made to Improve the Welcoming Mechanism and Integration of French Speaking Newcomers to Ontario. /Canada//International Conference on Education Proceedings, /493-498.

New cultural adaptations for business in the new knowledge economy based on feelings, innovation and community. /Europäische Kulturen der WirtschaftsKommunikation /(Springer link), 233-239.

Culture teaching in the curriculum. Comparative education, Teacher Training, Education Policy, Social Inclusion, History of Education, 9, 301-306

Deviations in representations in otherwise effective dialogue. 13th IADA Book of Abstracts, 143-144