Martin Guardado, PhD

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Arts - Linguistics Dept

Email: guardado@ualberta.ca
Address: 4-44 Assiniboia Hall
9137 116 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E7

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Sociocultural linguistics and applied linguistics

About

Areas of Expertise

Heritage language socialization and maintenance
Ethnographic methods
Discourse/ interactional analysis
TESL, EAP, TBLT
Technology and education
Internationalization of higher education
Action research

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Dr. Guardado is an applied and sociocultural linguist investigating language socialization and literacy practices within immigrant communities in Canada, with a particular focus on the development and maintenance of heritage languages. Recent and current funded projects include investigating multilingualism among Japanese families in Montreal, as well as families using a variety of languages in Alberta, Canada. A current funded project focuses on the revitalization of Pipil Náhuat in El Salvador, a critically-endangered Indigenous language with fewer than 100 fluent elderly speakers.

Dr. Guardado started his career in education as a teaching assistant in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1982. Since that time, he has taught courses in language and culture, language socialization, as well as ESL/EFL to all levels and age groups in the United States, El Salvador and Canada. He has also taught public school teachers, student teachers, graduate students, and international students in community colleges and universities both in El Salvador and in Canada. He obtained a secondary school teaching diploma and a B. A. (honours) in TEFL from Universidad Francisco Gavidia in El Salvador, a TESOL in-service Diploma from Vancouver Community College, a Masters in TESL, and a Ph.D in Applied Linguistics from The University of British Columbia.

Awards and grants

2020-2022 — McCalla Professorship, University of Alberta, $20,000

2019-2024 — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grant, Heritage Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices: An Examination of Linguistically Mixed Families in Alberta, $95,000, Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado (Co-Investigator: Rika Tsushima)

2020-2021 — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Partnership Engage Grant, Language Revitalization in El Salvador: Investigating the Feasibility of a Collaborative Intervention with the Indigenous Community of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, $25,000, Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado. Research Team: Dr. Jorge Lemus, Co-Investigator (Universidad Don Bosco, El Salvador); Dr. Yvonne Lam, Collaborator (MLCS, Faculty of Arts, U of A); Rika Tsushima, Collaborator (Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Extension, U of A)

2020-2021 — Office of the Vice-President (Research & Innovation) Special Initiative Grant, $30,000, Investigating Heritage Languages in Alberta: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Parental Strategies, Child Identities and Linguistic Features. Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado. Research Team: Dr. Yvonne Lam (MLCS, Faculty of Arts, U of A), Dr. Evangelia Daskalaki (Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, U of A), and Rika Tsushima (Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Extension, U of A)

2019-2020 — Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Research Team Grant, $7,500, A Multifaceted Examination of Parental Strategies, Child Identities and Linguistic Features Surrounding Heritage Languages in Alberta, Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado. Research Team: Dr. Yvonne Lam (MLCS, Faculty of Arts, U of A), Dr. Evangelia Daskalaki (Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, U of A), and Rika Tsushima (Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Extension, U of A)

2014-2016 — Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) Research Team Grant, $7,500, Information Seeking and Diffusion Among Chinese Immigrant Women in Alberta, University of Alberta. Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado. Research Team: Dr. Solina Richter (Faculty of Nursing, U of A), Dr. Louanne Keenan (Community Engaged Research, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, U of A), and Dr. Yuping Mao (Media and Communication, Erasmus University, The Netherlands)

2014-2015 — Vice-President (Research) Special SSHRC Grant, $7,984, Principal Investigator, Allophone Mothers: Japanese Female Immigrants’ Perspectives on Heritage Language in a Multilingual Canadian City, University of Alberta, Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Guardado; Co-Investigator: Rika Tsushima (Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Extension, U of A)

2013 — Lifelong Learning Award: Research and Scholarship, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta

2010-2012 — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, Spanish Language Socialization in Edmonton, $29,625, Principal Investigator

2008 — Ann Hawson Memorial Prize for Dissertation in Modern Language Education, Language and Literacy Education Department, University of British Columbia

2007 — Joseph Katz Memorial Award for Multicultural Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

2007 — Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant, University of British Columbia

2005 — Ph.D. Tuition Fee Award, University of British Columbia

2003-2005 — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)– Three-year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia

2004 — Ph.D. Tuition Fee Award, University of British Columbia

2003 — Ph.D. Tuition Fee Award, University of British Columbia

2001 — Best Graduate Student Paper Award-The Canadian Modern Language Review

Travel Awards

2005 — AILA 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin

2005 — Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, Faculty of Education, UBC

2006 — The Canadian Modern Language Review Student Presentation Award

Research

Research Interests

Language socialization in home, school and community settings
Multilingualism/ trilingualism; interlingual families
Community-based research
Heritage languages and metapragmatics
Heritage languages and cosmopolitanism
TESL and technology
Task-Based Language Teaching
English for Academic Purposes
Short-term study abroad
Global citizenship/ competence

Browse more courses taught by Martin Guardado

Featured Publications

"Global Jinzai" and short-term study abroad: Expectations, readiness and realities

Martin Guardado, Rika Tsushima

Book Chapter In S. R. Schecter & C. E. James (Eds.), Critical Approaches Toward a Cosmopolitan Education. ISBN 9780367347635. 2021 May;

The Many Faces of Multilingualism - Language Status, Learning and Use Across Contexts. New York & Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Piotr Romanowski, Martin Guardado

Book. 2020 November;

Curriculum Development in English for Academic Purposes - A Guide to Practice. London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

Martin Guardado, Justine Light

Book. 2020 May;

“Rules … I Want Someone to Make Them Clear”: Japanese Mothers in Montreal Talk about Multilingual Parenting

Rika Tsushima, Martin Guardado

Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 2019 January;

Discourse, Ideology and Heritage Language Socialization: Micro and Macro Perspectives. New York & Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Martin Guardado

Book. 2018 April;

Spanish as a Minority/Heritage Language in Canada and the UK