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Dr. Susan Gail Ballinger

Title: 
Associate Professor
Dr. Susan Gail Ballinger
Contact Information
Email address: 
susan.ballinger [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-398-2187
Address: 

Education Building
3700 rue McTavish
Montr茅al, Quebec H3A 1Y2
Canada

Division: 
Educational Leadership Supervisors
Educational Studies (Ph.D.) Supervisors
Education and Society Supervisors
Second Language Education Supervisors
Department: 
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Professional activities: 

Member, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music

Area(s): 
Arts, Languages and Literacy Education
Areas of expertise: 
  • Cross-linguistic approaches to bilingual and immersion education
  • Strategy instruction
  • Peer interaction
  • Teacher scaffolding to promote collaborative language learning
  • Influence of sociolinguistic context in bilingual classrooms
Biography: 

Dr. Ballinger's research primarily investigates language learning and pedagogy in content-based instructional settings such as French immersion in Canada or CLIL in Europe. Specific interests include cross-linguistic and plurilingual pedagogy, content and language integration, classroom interaction, peer collaboration, school language policy, and the impact of societal and classroom environments on students鈥� engagement and identity. Faculty Member, Language Acquisition Program. Member of the鈥疨lurilingual Lab, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, 海角社区. Member of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music.

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Degree(s): 
  • Ph.D. in Educational Studies, Language Acquisition, 海角社区, Montreal, QC, Canada. Thesis Title: Learning across languages: Bilingual literacy and peer language learning strategies in French Immersion.
  • M.A. in Second Language Education, 海角社区, Montreal, QC, Canada. Thesis Title:
  • B.A. in English Literature and Spanish Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Selected publications: 
  • Davis, S.,听Ballinger, S., & Sarkar, M. (2021). More languages means more lights in your house. Illuminating the experiences of newcomer families in French immersion.听Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 9(2), 336-363.
  • Ballinger, S., Lau, S., & Quevillon Lacasse, C. (2020). Cross-linguistic pedagogy: Harnessing transfer in the classroom.听The Canadian Modern Language Review, 76(4).
  • Ballinger, S.,听Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Kircher, R., Byers-Heinlein, K., & Polka, L. (2020). Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec.听Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,听顿翱滨:听
  • Ballinger, S., Quevillon Lacasse, C., & Lau, S. (Eds.). (2020). Targeting transfer: Cross-linguistic pedagogy in Canadian contexts [Special issue].听Canadian Modern Language Review, 76(4).
  • Ballinger, S.听(2020). Corrective feedback in content-based language instruction. In H. Nassaji & E. Kartchava (Eds.),听The Cambridge handbook of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Quevillon Lacasse, C., &听Ballinger, S.听(2020). Les approches interlinguistiques et l鈥檈nseignement pour favoriser les transferts langagiers en immersion fran莽aise.听尝别听Journal de l鈥橧mmersion, 42(1).
Program: 
  • Ph.D. Educational Studies (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Language Acquisition)
  • M.A. Second Language Education
  • Graduate Certificate in French Immersion Pedagogie (Certificat d鈥櫭﹖udes sup茅rieures en p茅dagogie de l鈥檌mmersion fran莽aise)
  • B.Ed. TESL
  • B.Ed. Kindergarten/Elementary P茅dagogie de L'immersion Fran莽aise
Graduate supervision: 

Accepting Masters and Ph.D. students for 2023-24
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