EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

1998-2002

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY: Education (Applied Linguistics)
University of London - Roehampton, London, UK
Thesis: Gender, language use, and silence in an ESL classroom

1993-1998

MASTER OF ARTS: Education
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Thesis: Practices which build a community of learners in a Punjabi Sikh grade-one classroom
Provincial Award: B.C. TEAL's MARY ASHWORTH AWARD for Innovative Graduate Research

1992-1993

Course work in DIPLOMA IN ADULT EDUCATION
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1991-1992

Qualifying year MASTER OF ARTS in Applied Linguistics
University of Ottawa, Ottawa

1983-1987

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
University of Alberta, Edmonton

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

10/2002 to Present

UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN, Wales, UK
Senior Lecturer in Education

9/2003 to 08/2004

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - Regent College, Vancouver, BC
Scholar in Residence Research Project: Faith and Feminism - Gender and the Language of Religion

3/2001 to Present

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Birmingham, UK
Supervisor for MA in TEFL, Centre of English Language Studies
Distance Education

1/1997 to 8/2003

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Burnaby, BC
Sessional Instructor (sessional contracts)

9/1993 to 4/2002

TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY, Langley, BC
English Literature Instructor & Linguistics Lecturer - Part-time

6/2000 to 4/2002

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, Vancouver, BC
English Teacher, English Language Institute (ELI) - Part-time
English instruction through Film Studies and Academic Writing course

1/1997 to 4/1999

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Burnaby, BC
Research Assistant

9/1996 to 8/1997

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, Burnaby, BC
Tutorial Assistant

9/1992 to 8/1993

NEW WESTMINSTER SCHOOL BOARD, New Westminster, BC
English Teacher

6/1992 to 8/1992

VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Vancouver. BC
English Teacher, Bursary Program

2/1992

ALGONQUIN COLLEGE, Ottawa, Ontario
Guest Lecturer to ESL Teachers-In-Training

7/1990 to 4/1992

CARLETON BOARD OF EDUCATION, Ottawa, Ontario
ESL Teacher

9/1990 to 4/1991

OTTAWA BOARD OF EDUCATION, Ottawa, Ontario
ESL Teacher

9/1988 to 1/1990

ALBERTA VOCATIONAL COLLEGE, Edmonton, Alberta
ESL Teacher

13/1987 to 12/1987

MILLWOODS SCHOOL, Edmonton, Alberta
Teacher/French Department Head

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Jule, A and B. Peterson (Eds) (in press). What's Feminism Got to Do with Us? Academic Women and Faith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jule, A. (Ed.) (2005). Gender and the language of religion. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, Macmillan

Jule, A. (2004). Gender, silence, and participation in language education: Sh-shushing the girls. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Editorial board; First Reader of Fiction. Event: The Douglas College Review (since 2001).

Referred Articles:

Jule, A. (2004). Girls' Silence: A case study. In Gender and English language learners. B. Norton and A. Pavlenko (Eds.), New York: TESOL Press.

Jule, A. (2003). Linguistic space: Ethnographic methods in a study of gender and language use. Investigating Educational policy through ethnography. G. Walford (Ed). Oxford: Elsevier. 215 - 230.

Jule, A. (2002). Speaking their sex: A study of gender and linguistic space in an ESL Classroom. TESL Canada Journal. Vol. 19, 2 (Spring), 37 - 51

Jule, A. (2000). Speaking silence: A study of linguistic space and girls in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Vancouver, BC (March 14 - 18). ERIC DOCUMENT: ED 456 666; FL 026 893.

Toohey, K, Waterstone, B. and Jule, A (2000). Community of learners, carnival, and participation in a Punjabi Sikh classroom. Canadian Modern Language Review, Vol. 56, 3, 421 - 436

Jule, A. (1999). A New York State of Mind TESOL MATTERS, Vol. 9, 4, 12.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Jule, A. (2004). Gender and religion: Six interviews. Paper presented at the Religion and Society conference. Point Loma University, San Diego, California. (March 23 - 26).

Jule, A. (2003). Girls talk: Girls and classroom silence. Paper presented at the British Educational Research Association (BERA). Edinburgh. Scotland (September 11-13).

Jule, A. (2003). Girls Talk: An ethnographic study of girls in classroom conversations. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. Oxford, UK (September 1-2).

Jule, A. (2003). Some talk of our own. Paper presented at Culture and Society Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA. (Mary Bucholtz, organizer). (May 5-6)

Jule, A. (2003). Trying to talk: Girls in classroom talk. Paper presented at BCTEAL, Vancouver. (February 28)

Jule, A. (2002). Speaking silence: A look at gender and the lack of linguistic space in an ESL classroom. Panel presenter at the 8th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology. Hong Kong (July 10 - 14).

Jule, A. (2002). Those quiet girls: Gender in teacher practice. Keynote speech at Teachers' In-service, English as a Second Language International (ESLI). Vancouver (June 13).

Jule, A. (2002). Margaret Atwood and themes in Canadian verse. Guest lecture. Grade 12 class. Robert Bateman High School. Abbotsford, BC (June 4).

Jule, A. (2002). se of linguistic space. Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Women Studies in Education (CAWSE). Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). The University of Toronto, Toronto (May 25 - 27).

Jule, A. (2002). Speaking her silence: A look at gender in a second language classroom. Paper presented at the 16th TESL Canada National Conference. Regina, Saskatchewan (May 16 - 18).

Jule, A. (2002). Speaking silences: A look at gender and linguistic space in and ESL classroom. Poster presented at the Second International Gender and Language Association Conference. (IGALA2). Lancaster University, UK (April 12 - 14).

Jule, A. (2002). Some room of our own: An examination of gender resources in a language classroom. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 14. Gent, Belgium. (April 4 - 6).

Jule, A. (2002). Speaking of silence: Girls' speech in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Columbia Teachers of English as an Additional Language (BCTEAL). Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver. (February 21 - 23).

Jule, A. (2001). An ethnographic study of linguistic space. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference. The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (September 4 - 6).

Jule, A. (2001). Speaking her sex?: A Canadian ethnographic study of gender in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL). The University of Reading, Reading, UK (September 6 - 9).

Jule, A. (2001). Bilingualism in a Punjabi-Sikh Canadian classroom. Poster presented at the Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, The University of Western England, Bristol, UK. (April).

Jule, A. (2000). Gender in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL) Canada National Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia. (September).

Jule, A. (2000). Speaking silence: A study of linguistic space and girls in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Vancouver, BC (March 14 - 18). ERIC DOCUMENT: ED 456 666; FL 026 893.

Jule, A. (2000) Volunteer. American Association of Applied Lingustics (AAAL). Vancouver, B.C. (March).

Jule, A. (1999). Assimilation revisited: A Canadian Case Study of a Punjabi-Sikh school. Paper presented at the Metropolis Conference on Immigration. Georgetown University, Washington, DC. (December).

Jule, A. (1999). Community practices in an ESL classroom. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). The University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. (June).

Jule, A. (1999). Participant. Mary Ashworth Travel Award Recepient for Innovative Graduate Research at the TESOL International Conference. New York, N.Y. (March).

Jule, A. and Watersstone, B. (1999). Performing carnival: A look at classroom practices. Paper presented to BCTEAL. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (February).

Jule, A. (1999). Building a Community of Learners: A look at a Punjabi Sikh classroom. Paper presented to the Research on Immigration (RIIM) Metropolis Project at Simon Fraser University. (January).

Jule, A. and Toohey, T. (1998). Teacher practices in a Punjabi Sikh grade one classroom. Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). The University of Ottawa, Ottawa. (June).

Jule, A. (1998). International student satisfaction at a Canadian university. Paper presented at the Heart and Mind Conference, Toronto, Ontario. (May).

MEMBERSHIPS

International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
Canadian Association of Women in Education (CASWE), part of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)
British Educational Research Association (BERA)
British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Gender in the Language Classroom
• Language Use/Socio-linguistics
• Canadian Literature
• Punjabi Ethnicity in the Diaspora
• ESL Teaching Training
• Canadian Experiences with Multiculturalism