Patricia Duff is a Professor in the Dpt of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, second language acquisition (functional analysis), language socialization in multilingual settings, rearch methods (classroom research, case study, ethnography, discource analysis, task-based reserch), issues in the teaching and learning of English and other international languages, integration of ESL students in high school, university, and society, multilingualism and work, sociocultural and sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of language(s) in education.