Allyson Eamer
Allyson Eamer, B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: EDU 528
Phone:905.721.8668 ext. 3821
Email:
allyson.eamer@uoit.ca
Research Interests
Research interests include synchronous online language learning, language acquisition and identity negotiation, immersion education, ethnolinguistic vitality and mother tongue education.
Allyson is also interested in how digital literacy supports self directed learning, how cyber colonialism impacts distance education through the dominance of English on the web, and how corporate outsourcing has changed English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching.
Current Projects
Digital Multimedia Identity Projects with Elementary ESL students: This project explores the role of language, music and image in negotiating and representing evolving identities for new Canadian children.
Language and Identity Negotiation in the 1.5 Generation:This study explores how newly immigrated teens use the languages in their repertoires to achieve or maintain insider status with various peer groups in the complex terrain of secondary school where social capital is intertwined with a student's sense of being competent/successful and where competence/success informs one's beliefs about the accessibility of post secondary education.
Courses Taught
EDUC 3900 Literacy Across the Curriculum
EDUC 3440 Teaching English as a Second Language
EDUC 5005 Social and Cultural Context ofEducation
EDUC 3911 Information Literacy
EDUC 4630 Teaching Language Arts
Publications
Books/ Chapters
Gamlin, P., Maracle, D. Sodhi. P., Eamer, A.,Komorowsky, L, & Yee, G. (2001). Living authentically in multiple cultures.In P. Gamlin, G. Luther, & G. Wagner (Eds.) Exploring Human Potential:Facilitating Growth in the New Millennium. Toronto: Captus Press, p. 94-141.
RefereedArticles
Lotherington, H. and Eamer, A. (2008).Successful kids from immigrant families: An investigation of the complex multilingual worlds of 10 year old gifted writers in suburban Toronto. International Journal of Multilingualism, 5 (2).
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Eamer, A. (2009) Language, culture and identity negotiation: Three generations of immigrant families in Toronto.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education.HICE, 3471-3497.
Conference Presentations
Eamer,A. (2009).
Language Learning and Identity for the 1.5Generation: Case Studies in a Toronto High School. A presentation at the 7th annual conference of the International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education, June 23-26, 2009,OISE, Toronto ON
Eamer,A. (2009). The colour of language: Case studies in race, language and identity. A presentation at the conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, May 27-29, 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa ON
Eamer, A. (2009). Language, culture and identity negotiation: Three generations of immigrant families in Toronto. A presentation at the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 4-7, 2009, Honolulu,Hawaii.
Eamer, A. (2006). Confessions of a Transplanted Mind:Using Stories of Class Mobility to Explore Social Class. A presentation at the conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, May, 2007, York University,Toronto ON
Lotherington,H. & Eamer, A. (2005). The language worlds of 10 year old gifted bilingual writers. A presentation at the conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, May, 2006, University of Western Ontario, London ON
Lotherington,H. & Eamer, A. (2004). Gifted bilingual writers: An exploration of children's home language practices. A presentation at the Annual TESL Ontario Conference,November, 2004, Toronto, ON
Eamer, A. & Brown, A. (2004). Language Shift in One Japanese-Canadian Family: A Case Study. A presentation at the conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, May 2004, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,Man.
