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 year, there are a number of SLaLS professors participating in this initiative.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Peggy.Hartwick@carleton.caDr. Peggy 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, such as Digital Storytelling, and continuously looks to evolve her teaching according to ‘best practices’ and research. She has taught all levels of ESLA, ALDS 1001, 2203, 4209, 4906 and 5002. She is teaching ALDS/TEAL 5302 this fall term, and TEAL 5216 and ALDS/TEAL 5202 in winter 2026. Peggy is the Assistant Director in ALDS for the 2025/26 school year.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Beth.MacLeod@carleton.caDr. Beth MacLeod is an Associate 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 (LING) courses, but her specialty is Phonetics.
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Available: By appointment
Email Address: Don.Myles@carleton.caDon Myles is an Associate Professor (Teaching Stream) in Carleton University’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies. He teaches courses in Applied Linguistics, the MA in Teaching English as an Additional Language (TEAL), and the Certificate in TESL program. Don has almost 20 years of experience teaching English in Canada, Mexico, and China, including 12 years teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Carleton. He is interested in the role of Generative AI in language education, academic research, and writing. Are you passionate about learning/teaching languages, as well as the idea of living abroad? Don would love to discuss the Certificate in TESL (CTESL) and how it can be integrated into your degree. The CTESL can be your ticket to exciting teaching opportunities overseas (JET in Japan, EPIK in Korea, China, and elsewhere).
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Available: By appointment (Wednesday – Friday)
Email Address: Geoff.Pinchbeck@carleton.caDr. Geoff Pinchbeck is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (ALDS). He has taught graduate courses in TESL Methodology, Pedagogical Grammar, and Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, as well as undergraduate classes such as Major Structures of English and TESL Practicum. He has experience teaching English for a variety of purposes (including ESL literacy) in Alberta, Quebec, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. His research uses primarily quantitative and statistical approaches, particularly those used in corpus linguistics and diagnostic language assessment to explore a variety of topics in second/additional language acquisition research, including 1) vocabulary and morphology acquisition, 2) the role of academic English in school and university achievement, and 3) research related to language program curriculum design and materials development.
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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 (ALDS). 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 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, 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.