Grants

SSHRC Insight Grant (2019-2024)

  • “Predictors of reading difficulty and success in a third language” modified to bilingual children to adjust to pandemic conditions (PI: R. Helms-Park)
  • Participants:  child readers with L1 Hindi-Urdu or L1 Romanian & English as L2 (student researchers: Nabeeha Ali; Jameela Rasheed; Aiman Khan; and Kiruththika Pushpalingam)

SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2022)

  • “Childhood trilingualism in a Canadian context” (PI: M. Pirvulescu)

SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2004-8)

  • “Transfer in second language acquisition and creolization: L1/substrate influence in emergent and stable grammars”

Departmental Research Grants

  • With linguists in the Dept. of Language Studies, UTSC, 2018 and 2022

University of Toronto Excellence Awards 

  • In: 2015, (K. Leung); 2019 (M. Lefaive); 2020 (J. H. Yao); 2021 (A. Hailemichael); 2022 (J. Rasheed & K. Pushpalingam)

SIG Grants

  • Several from 2007 to 2022

UTSC Research Impact Grants

  • September 2014 & February 2016

Jackson Humanities Institute, Working Group Grant (2015-6)

  • “Multilingualism in a Canadian context” (with M. Pirvulescu & M.C. Petrescu)

Connaught Match-Up Grant (2002-4)

  • “An empirical study of the divergent roles of voice and content in second-language academic writing”

Connaught New Faculty Grant (2002-5)

  • “Input enhancement and on-line processing in the second-language classroom”

Tier 1 Experiential Learning Grant, UTSC (Winter, 2022)

  • “The mental lexicon in healthy and impaired older adults: simulated clinical procedures” (with A. Subramaniam)

Teaching Enhancement Grants, Teaching and Learning Services, UTSC (2002-6)

  • “On an explicit pedagogy in classroom-based genre analysis” (with P. Radia)
  • “Using the Internet in undergraduate research” (with P. Radia)
  • “Peer review in undergraduate academic writing”