Dr. Scott Douglas


Associate Professor

Education (UBC-O)

Faculty of Education

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Scott Roy Douglas is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education on UBC’s Okanagan campus.  He enjoys working with a wide variety of teacher candidates, graduate students, and in-service teachers exploring English as an additional language teaching and learning in K-12 and adult contexts.  His particular research interests include English language assessment and English for academic purposes curriculum and materials design.  Scott is the editor of the BC TEAL Journal, the peer-reviewed publication of the Association of BC Teachers of English as an Additional Language.

Research Interests

English language assessment; English for academic purposes curriculum and materials design; EAL; ESL; TESL; Applied Linguistics; Vocabulary, EAP

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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