Yongcan's research seeks to deepen the debate about multilingualism in education, particularly for migrant children. His projects examine the role of language(s) in schooling and the knowledge base of (language) teaching in contexts of diversity, mobility and uncertainty. He brings together three related fields, i.e. 'heritage language maintenance', 'language across the curriculum', and 'foreign language education', in an integrated programme to address critical issues on achievement, integration and wellbeing of migrant children.
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Yongcan research programme brings together three domains of research (community/heritage language maintenance, foreign language learning, and language/literacy across the curriculum) to critically examine the relationship between language, heritage and migration, and their interplay in schooling.
He is co-author of Bell Foundation's EAL Assessment Framework for Schools.
Fields of expertise: Culture, Education, Migration