Coffee with a SLaLS Prof
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is running Coffee with a Prof again this term, offering students a chance to set up a coffee chat with a professor.
This fall, there are a number of SLaLS professors participating in this initiative.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Peggy.Hartwick@carleton.caDr. Hartwick is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies. Her research interests focus primarily on the potential learning benefits afforded by digital technologies and online spaces in learning and teaching contexts (including assessment practices). Peggy is fascinated by innovative teaching practices and continuously looks to evolve her teaching according to ‘best practice’ and research. She has taught all levels of ESLA, ALDS 1001, 4209, 4906 and 5002. She is teaching ALDS 2203 and ALDS/TEAL 5216 and ALDS/TEAL 5202 in Winter 2025.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Karen.Jesney@carleton.caDr. Jesney is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies. Her research focuses on how children acquire the sounds of their language, and what this can tell us about adults’ cognitive representations. She teaches various courses in Linguistics, including courses in child language development and phonology.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Beth.MacLeod@carleton.caDr. MacLeod is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies. In her research, Dr. MacLeod explores how social meaning is encoded in phonetic variation; that is, what kind of information we can express to others via our pronunciation and what do others understand about us from how we pronounce our words. She teaches various Linguistics and Applied Linguistics courses, but her specialty is Phonetics.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Geoff.Pinchbeck@carleton.caDr. Pinchbeck has previously taught courses at the graduate level in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) Methodology and Practicum, Pedagogical Grammar, and Research Methodology. At the undergraduate level, he has taught Major Structures of English and TESL Practicum. He taught English as a foreign language (EFL) for five years in Quebec, Japan, and Saudi Arabia, and was an instructor, materials developer, and language curriculum designer in a wide variety of language teaching contexts in Alberta, and these have included English for academic & specific purposes, Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC), and ESL-literacy.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Brian.Strong@carleton.caDr. Brian Strong is an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies. His research interests include second language acquisition and second language vocabulary acquisition and teaching. Brian has over 20 years of experience teaching English as a foreign and second language. He loves talking about teaching English as another language and ways to investigate how languages are learned. His availability varies by week, but he is happy to find a time that works.
To set up a coffee chat, please follow these three steps:
- Contact the professor of your choice from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ list of participating faculty members (click here for a complete list) and find a mutually convenient time for your meeting. FASS will pay for your coffee at Rooster’s Coffeehouse (4th floor Nideyinàn) or you can meet virtually over Zoom.
- Once you have confirmation from the professor, please email Jesse McClintock with the details of your coffee chat.
- If you’re meeting in person, tell the employees behind the counter at Rooster’s that you’re participating in the Coffee with a Prof program and your coffee will be paid for! If you’re meeting online, you or the prof can schedule a Zoom meeting at a time convenient to you both.