Most people in the world are multilingual, and everybody could be; no one is rigorously excluded from another’s language community except through lack of time and effort. Different languages protect and nourish the growth of different cultures, where different pathways of human knowledge can be discovered. They certainly make life richer for those who know more than one of them.
– Nicholas Ostler
Focus and Mandate of the Group
The Research Cluster on Linguistics and Language Education, under the leadership of Dr. Xinxin Fang, is a group of passionate researchers and educators who specialize in Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and other languages, as well as scholars and students who are interested in exploring languages and culture.
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
Objectives
1) To promote the advancement of language research and teaching
2) To disseminate research in language and culture
3) To conduct linguistic and language education research projects
4) To conduct professional development for language educators
5) To facilitate exchanges and collaboration among language educators and researchers
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.
– Nelson Mandela
If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Group Members
- Xinxin Fang – Director, Centre for Chinese Studies, CUE
- Conrad van Dyk – Professor, Arts, CUE
- Adrien Guyot – Assistant Professor, Arts, CUE
- Hannuo Wu – Teacher, Calgary Board of Education
- Billie Wu – Professor, Simon Fraser University
- Mianmian Xie – Teacher, Edmonton Public Schools
- Wei Liu – Administrator, University of Alberta International
- Mai Hussein – Assistant Professor, Arts, CUE
- Juan Hernandez – Instructor, Arts, CUE
- Xavier Gutiérrez – Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
- Xiaoting Li – Associate Professor, University of Alberta
- Wenting Chen – Instructor, Capital Normal University
- Kristy Nickerson – Instructor, Office of Extension and Culture, CUE
- Mark Loo – Associate Professor, Mihalcheon School of Management, CUE
- Peng Zhao – Instructor, Capital Normal University, China
- Jialun Zhong – Graduate student, Central China Normal University, China
- Hongjun Wu – Lecturer, Yantai University, China
- Marcella Siqueira Cassiano – Instructor, Concordia University of Edmonton
- Kalina Kukielko – Assistant Professor, University of Szczecin, Poland
- Aleksander Cywinski – Assistant Professor, University of Szczecin, Poland