Natalia Balyasnikova

Dr. Natalia Balyasnikova is an Associate Professor of Adult Education at the Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her research explores the complexity of language and literacy education for immigrants, with a current focus on the discourses surrounding older immigrants' language learning in community-based settings. In her research, she combines traditional ethnographic data generation procedures with the facilitation of biographical storytelling, research poetry, and ethnodrama.