Books
My published monograph and edited volumes include:

Social Justice through Pedagogies of Multiliteracies: Developing and Strengthening L2 Learner Agency and Identity

International Students in Higher Education: Language, Identity, and Experience from a Holistic Perspective

Teaching and Learning Portuguese in Canada: Multidisciplinary Contributions to SLA Research and Practice
Recent Publications
Other publications of mine have appeared or are forthcoming in Canadian and international journals as well as edited volumes. Representative publications of more recent work include:
- Journal articles:
Melo-Pfeifer, S., & Tavares, V. (2024). An inconvenient truth: When ideologies of multilingualism lead to auto-inflicted epistemic exclusion by multilingual students in higher education. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. ★
Tavares, V., & Benediktsson, A. I. (2024). But life goes on: Drama classes, Ukrainian refugees, and Icelandic language learning. Literacy. ★
Tavares, V. (2024). Experiencing deficit: Multilingual international students talk identity. McGill Journal of Education. ★
Tavares, V. (2023). Teaching in diverse lower and upper secondary schools in Norway: The missing links in student teachers’ experiences. Education Sciences. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). Teaching international students in a difficult time: The importance of empathy. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). From Macao to the United States and Canada: A transnational journey of longing for belonging. Comparative and International Education/Éducation Comparée et Internationale. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). Neoliberalism, native-speakerism and the displacement of international students’ languages and cultures. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). Worlds apart: Visualising multilingual international student sociocultural adjustment through pictures. Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). “Lock us in a room together”—Local students’ suggestions for improving socialisation with international students. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). Teaching two languages: Navigating dual identity experiences. Pedagogies: An International Journal. ★
Tavares, V. (2021). Feeling excluded: International students experience equity, diversity and inclusion. International Journal of Inclusive Education. ★
Tavares, V. (2021). Multilingual international students at a Canadian university: Portraits of agency. American Journal of Qualitative Research. ★
Tavares, V. (2021). Theoretical perspectives on international student identity. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education. ★
Tavares, V. (2020). Exploring multilingual international students’ identity-related experiences through pictures. Contact Magazine, March, 52-60. ★
- Book reviews:
Tavares, V. (2023). Higher education internationalization and English language instruction: Intersectionality of race and language in Canadian universities (by Xiangying Huo, Springer). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. ★
Tavares, V. (2023). A research agenda for graduate education (by Brian S. Mitchell, University of Toronto Press). Canadian Journal of Education, 46(1), xv-xvii. ★
Tavares, V. (2022). Intercultural competence past, present and future (by María D. López-Jiménez & Jorge Sánchez-Torres, Springer). Journal of International Students. ★
Tavares, V. (2021). Essentials for successful English language teaching (by Thomas S. C. Farrell & George M. Jacobs, Bloomsbury Publishing). TESL Canada Journal. ★