{"id":218,"date":"2015-07-08T02:07:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2025-07-23T23:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:29:13","slug":"current-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/?page_id=218","title":{"rendered":"Current Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 2025-June 2026: Makerspaces and English Language Learners. <\/strong>Researchers: Melanie Wong (principal investigator), Kristiina Kumpulainen (co-investigator), and George Whitehead (co-investigator).<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2024-June 2025: Augmented Reality Storytelling. <\/strong>AR Storytelling with Grade 1\/2 students. Researchers: Kristiina Kumpulainen (principal investigator), Harini Rajagopal (co-investigator) and Melanie Wong (co-investigator).<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2022-June 2023: An Ethnographic Case Study Elementary English language Learners in an Online Classroom. <\/strong>Online learning experiences of elementary ELL students. Researcher: Melanie M. Wong<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2021-June 2022:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Mapping our Communities: Shifting towards Place-Based Pedagogies in the Primary Years Cohort.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;\">Place-based learning experiences with Teacher Candidates. Co-researchers: Iris Berger (principal investigator) and Melanie M. Wong (co-researcher).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 2021-June 2021:<\/strong> <strong id=\"project-title\" class=\"project-title\">Dancing through the Pandemic: Experiences of Remote Learning in a K-12 Ballet School.\u00a0<\/strong>Remote learning experiences in a ballet school. Co-researchers: Melanie M. Wong (principal investigator) and Graham Lea (University of Manitoba)<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 2015-Completed:\u00a0<b>An Ethnographic\u00a0<\/b><b>Case Study of the Literacy Practices of English Language Learners within\u00a0<\/b><b>an Grade 5\/6 Technology-Enhanced Classroom.\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>Dissertation Study. Researcher: Melanie M. Wong (Supervisors: Drs. Margaret Early and Steven Talmy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020-2021: <strong id=\"project-title\" class=\"project-title\">(Re)thinking Medical Interviews.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Researcher: Melanie M. Wong.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 2025-June 2026: Makerspaces and English Language Learners. Researchers: Melanie Wong (principal investigator), Kristiina Kumpulainen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":{"previous_score":{"desktop_score":99,"desktop_tti":"0.9\u00a0","mobile_score":82,"mobile_tti":"3.9\u00a0","date":"23.07.2025 06:16:36 pm","status":"completed"}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melaniewong.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}