Marie J. Myers

Professor, Graduate Faculty

Contact Information

Room: A210

Phone: 613-533-3032

Email: myersmj@queensu.ca

Web: http://post.queensu.ca/~myersmj

CV: http://post.queensu.ca/~myersmj/CV Myersmj.pdf

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)

Current Courses

None in the Graduate Program

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

Referred Publications in 2011

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

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

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

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

e) 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. 13^th IADA Book of Abstracts, 143-144