Dr. Van Viegen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University. She earned a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching and Learning from OISE/ University of Toronto, and has seventeen years of experience as an English language instructor and program administrator. Her main research interest is language in education, particularly bilingualism, multilingualism and development of academic literacies. Her current projects explore language assessment in K-12 education, resources for learning in multilingual university settings, and language and literacy of youth refugees in secondary education. Publications from her recent work appear in several edited books and journals, including Canadian Modern Language Review, Language Assessment Quarterly, TESL Canada Journal, European Journal of Teacher Education, and TESOL Quarterly, and she recently co-edited (with Sunny Lau) the book Plurilingual Pedagogies: Critical and Creative Undertakings for Equitable Language (in) Education, to be published for the Springer Educational Linguistics series.
