*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Roma Chumak-Horbatsch
I am an associate professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, where I teach courses in language development and childhood bilingualism. I have a background in applied linguistics and early language and literacy development. My research focuses on multilingual pedagogy and the unique language and literacy needs of young bilingual learners. In my book, Linguistically Appropriate Practice (2012: University of Toronto Press) I profile the language and literacy reality of children who arrive in classrooms with limited (or no) proficiency in the classroom language and present a research-based, field-tested practice that helps teachers re-tool their current practice and transform their classrooms into multilingual and multi-literate environments where languages and literacies come to life.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.
