“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”