Sunny Lau

Dr. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Full Professor at Bishop’s University in Quebec, is Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Integrated Plurilingual Teaching and Learning (since July 2021) and the recipient of the 2012 International Society for Language Studies’ Founders’ Emergent Scholars Award. Her recent research projects (SSHRC, FRQSC, and The Higher Education Hub—Estrie) examine the use of translanguaging pedagogies in promoting students’ critical bi/multilingual learning. Disrupting the university-school and theory-practice divides, Dr. Lau pioneers participative action research studies on cross-language and cross-curricular teacher collaborations to promote not only mobilization of languages for knowledge-construction but also metalinguistic and metacultural awareness for critical literacies education. She co-edited Plurilingual pedagogies: Critical and Creative Endeavors for Equitable Language in Education (Lau & Van Viegen, 2020) which engages critically with the theories and pedagogies related to plurilingualism across educational contexts. She is also a co-editor for Critical Inquiry for Language Studies.   

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