Patricia Duff

Dr. Patricia Duff is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Her research focuses on bilingual/multilingual education, identity formation, language ideologies, and decolonizing methodologies in language learning contexts.

• English and Mandarin language proficiency
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• Active in language socialization studies across classrooms, families, and diaspora communities

Research interests center on language socialization processes in transnational environments, heritage language education, academic discourse communities, and the intersection of pop culture with language pedagogy. She pioneered case study methods in applied linguistics and co-edited the Routledge handbook of research methods in applied linguistics.

Key publication trends show sustained focus on Chinese language education (40+ publications), family/workplace language planning (15+), and critical discourse analysis of multilingual identities (25+). Her work spans qualitative classroom research, policy analysis, and sociocultural theory applications.