Faculty

 

Department Coordinators

Cyndy Reimer

Email: reimerc@douglascollege.ca

 

Denise Lo

Email: lod6@douglascollege.ca 

 

Faculty members

Sheilagh Badanic

BA, Speech Science, University of British Columbia; 

MEd, Integrating Arts in the Curriculum, Lesley University;  

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Curriculum and assessment; inclusion, equity and cultural awareness; faculty mentorship and collaboration 

 

Email: badanics@douglascollege.ca

Tina Fusco

BA, Université Laval;  
MA, Concordia University;  
TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Community engagement, Experiential Learning, curriculum and materials development, mentorship 

 

Email: fuscot@douglascollege.ca

Nathan Hall

BA, Non-Concentration, Taylor University College;  

MA TESOL, Trinity Western University;  

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Educational Technology, Instructional Design

 

Email: halln1@douglascollege.ca

Denise Lo

BA English Literature, University of Calgary;  

MEd TESL, University of Alberta;  

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Education technology, AI, Task-based learning, Curriculum development, English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes 

 

Email: lod6@douglascollege.ca

Nadia Ouazzani Touhami

BA English Linguistics, Sidi Mohamed Ibn Abdellah University;  

MEd TESL, Simon Fraser University;  

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Sociocultural theory to language learning, alternative assessment, EAP curriculum development 

 

Email: ouazzanitouhamn@douglascollege.ca

Cyndy Reimer

BA Hons., University of Winnipeg; 

MEd in ESL, University of Manitoba; 

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Program coordination and development; curriculum and materials development; advanced grammar instruction 

 

Email: reimerc@douglascollege.ca

Gordana Sokic

BA English Language and Literature, University of Belgrade, Serbia;  

MEd TESL, University of British Columbia;  

TESL Canada Professional Certificate Standard Three 

 

Areas of expertise:  

Systemic Functional Linguistics, grammatical metaphor, the reader approach to writing, multimodality

 

Email: sokicg@douglascollege.ca

Faculty emerititi

Julia Robinson

BA, MA, University of British Columbia

Carol St. Jean

BS, Central Connecticut State College; 

MEd, University of British Columbia 

 

Areas of expertise: 

ESL instruction; program planning and development; barriers to participation in adult learning 

Tom Whalley

BA, Sophia, Tokyo; 

MA, MEd, University of British Columbia; 

PhD, Simon Fraser University 

 

Areas of expertise: 

Language education, intercultural communication, faculty development