L-R: Eva Kartchava, Genan Hamad, Yana Lysiak, Guillaume Gentil, Michael Rodgers, Geoff Pinchbeck, Gillian McLellan, Don Myles
SLALS was well represented at Congress 2019 (June 1-7), an annual event that brings together Social Science researchers from across Canada. This year’s gathering was held year on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and featured presentations from ALDS faculty members, ESLA instructors, and 10+ current or former Carleton students.
The Congress event is comprised of more than 70 Associate Conferences. Professor Gentil co-chaired the entire event in his role as Vice President of CAAL/ACLA (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics/L’Association canadienne de linguistique appliquée).
SLaLS participation at the ACLA Associate Conference included:
- Dr. Eva Karchava, a member of the CAAL/ACLA executive, chaired a themed discussion session on listening/speaking, presented on her work in task-based learning, and co-presented with a number of her graduate students.
- Michael Rodgers chaired a themed discussion, in his case on vocabulary and lexical studies, presented his own research, and co-presented with several graduate students.
- ESLA instructors Mike Murphy and Don Myles, along with Dr. Geoff Pinchbeck presented on their ongoing collaboration with BCIT researcher Nathan Devos regarding diagnostic vocabulary testing for at-risk students. Geoff also delivered several other presentations relating to lexical analysis.
- Recent ALDS graduate Dr. Saira Fitzgerald presented on her corpus-based critical discourse analysis work on the influence of International Baccalaureate programs, while PhD student Alisa Zavialova presented insights from her research in progress entitled “The formulae-enhanced approach to teaching L2 pragmatics”.
For more information about other CAAL/ACLA presentations by members of the SLaLS community, please view the conference program.
Meanwhile at CASDW (Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing), SLaLS was represented by a number of faculty members and graduate students.
Dr. Graham Smart and PhD student Matthew Falconer presented research on the uptake and recontextualization of climate-change science within “denialist” culture communities. Matt also shared a portion of his doctoral research in a paper entitled “Recontextualizing science for policymakers: A rhetorical analysis of the Council of Canadian Academies’ transport report.”
“I benefited from the experience of sharing these papers with colleagues,” Matt said. “I also really enjoyed spending time catching up with CASDW members from around Canada.”
PhD student Jeremiah Bell presented research on the design and use of case studies (in particular the strategic use of narrative) as catalysts for problem-based learning in post-secondary studies.
Dr. Chloe Fogarty-Bourget presented a paper (coauthored with Drs. Natasha Artemeva and Jesse Pirini) on nuances of multimodality that exist, and are influential in, student-instructor interactions.
Dr. Katie Bryant (Coordinator of Carleton Writing Services/Adjunct Research Professor) and PhD candidate Codie Fortin Lalonde collaborated with their Michigan State University partners to present a paper entitled “Concentric circles: Understanding collaboration by asking ourselves critical questions”. This presentation focused on how to use decolonial approaches to build writing capacity support at universities in southern Africa. Codie also presented her paper “Developing the contributing citizen: The discursive construction of public education across Canada” at CSSE (Canadian Society for the Study of Education).
For information on other presenters from Carleton, check out the CASDW program.