Jeffrey Steele
Associate Professor
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Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Steele is an Associate Professor in French Studies at the Department of Language studies at the University of Toronto with graduate appointments in the Language & Literacy Program (LLE) at the аÄÃÅÁùºÏ¸ßÊÖÂÛ̳ (OISE) and the tri-campus French program.
Research interests
Dr. Steele’s research interests include bilingualism and second language learning, phonetics, assessment, and evaluation. His latest SSHRC-funded research project is called Reading Comprehension among Majority and Minority Language Children in French Immersion: The Contribution of Oral Language Skills and Reading Strategies and investigates English-French cross-language transfer as well as the effects of the majority/minority status on language and literacy learning.