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Professor Yan Guo

Visiting Fellow

Professor University of Calgary

PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada; MA, University of Regina, Canada; MA & BA, Shandong Normal University, China

Yan Guo is Professor of Language and Literacy at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her work focuses on documenting and dismantling deficit thinking about children with English as an additional language (EAL) in schools. She has published widely on the issues of EAL policies, immigrant parent knowledge, critical pedagogy in teacher education, communication between teachers and immigrant parents, translanguaging, transnational identities, refugee children’s school settlement, and the internationalization of higher education. Her work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and Education International (Brussels). She is a co-editor of two book series: Transnational Migration and Education and Spotlight on China.