Allyson Eamer
PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education
Contact information
Education Building - Room 521
Downtown Oshawa
11 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON
905.721.8668 ext. 3821
Dr. Allyson Eamer: Digital literacy and online language learning
Dr. Allyson Eamer's research interests include synchronous online language learning; language acquisition and identity negotiation; immersion education; ethnolinguistic vitality; and mother tongue education. She 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.Research and expertise
- Bilingualism/multilingualism in families, schools and communities
- English language education
- Equitable access to higher education
- Ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics
- Indigenous language learning
- Language and multiculturalism
- Mother tongue maintenance in immigrant families
- Online language learning
- Additional languages spoken: French, Cantonese
