Pedro dos Santos

Pedro dos Santos serves as a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Educational Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), Canada, while completing his PhD candidacy in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. His academic profile centers on language education and international student experiences.

His research explores critical intersections of language and academia through five core areas:

• Academic literacies development
• Academic socialization processes
• International student mobility patterns
• Translanguaging practices
• Trans-semiotizing frameworks

His scholarly work demonstrates consistent focus on plurilingual educational settings and critical language integration.

His two major publications reveal evolving expertise in multilingual higher education contexts, with increasing emphasis on trans-semiotic approaches to content-language integration. The 2022 RELC Journal article represents his most current theoretical contribution to critical plurilingual pedagogy.

Pedro maintains active teaching responsibilities including EDUC 1100/1150 - Introduction to Higher Education, connecting his research on academic transitions with classroom practice. His Google Scholar profile documents ongoing scholarly engagement with language-education interfaces in transnational contexts.