Submit an alumni profile Friday, June 17, 2022Areej Tayem, MA (ALDS)/20My interest in the applied linguistics and discourse studies MA program in Carleton University originally derived from my passion in linguistics and second language acquisition. However, the different courses I took in curriculum... MoreWednesday, March 31, 2021Alisa Zavialova, PhD (ALDS)/20Alisa Zavialova holds both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies from Carleton University. Her research interests centre around instructional pragmatics and formulaic language. As a second language... MoreMonday, March 29, 2021Christopher Smith, PhD (ALDS)/20After Renaissance Studies in OCADU's Florence (Italy) program, followed by 18 years of secondary and university EFL instruction in Korea, I returned to Canada and joined SLaLS in 2015. I received a Master's degree from UNE (2014), but... MoreFriday, July 3, 2020Jacquie Ballantine, MA/17After almost 40 years of experience working as a speech-language clinician in Africa and Canada, during which I also spent 10 years of lecturing here in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLALS), I decided to enroll in... MoreMonday, December 9, 2019Ruth Kennedy, MA/12The Master of Arts (ALDS) has helped me to advance in my career in the federal public service. I have held leadership positions in the area of workplace learning and am currently building an orientation program for new managers which... MoreThursday, October 25, 2018Keenan Wellar, MA/01In 1995 I found myself on Carleton University campus, having been hired as a Project Manager with a start-up company led by Carleton engineering students, working out of the new Carleton Training and Technology Centre. With a... MoreThursday, September 13, 2018Lauren Murphy, MA/15After taking ALDS undergraduate courses in the final year of my English Literature degree, I enjoyed the subject matter so much that I pursued a Graduate degree focusing on the discourse/writing studies stream. I would go on to apply... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Nicole Jacobson, MA/16I completed my MA in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton in 2016. My research was rooted in writing and genre studies—specifically, academic writing in tertiary education and writing in blended and online learning... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Christen Rachul, MA/08, PhD/16I completed my MA in Applied Language Studies in 2008 with a focus on writing studies. Soon after I began working as a research associate at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. I applied the research skills and... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Taelor Smith, MA/16After obtaining a Joint Honours in Psychology and in Linguistics BA from the University of Ottawa, I decided to pursue graduate studies at Carleton. I chose the MA in ALDS, which allowed me to draw upon and consolidate my theoretical... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Tina Beynen MA/15 What drew me to Carleton was the chance to work with a highly-regarded language testing researcher and what looked to be interesting courses; neither disappointed. This combined with the camaraderie I developed with fellow students,... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Alisa Zavialova, MA/15I came to Carleton University as an international student from Ukraine, where I studied teaching English as a foreign language and graduated with Master’s degree in Foreign Language Philology in 2013. Since I have always been... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Don Myles, MA/14After spending almost 5 years teaching English in language schools and universities in Mexico and China, I decided to return to Carleton to continue my education and improve my teaching qualifications. I was nervous about entering the... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Yoichi Mukai, MA/14My time in SLaLS provided me with a strong preparation to further pursue my academic career. That was not only to understand theoretical considerations of my research interests but also to gain great hands-on experiences. My doctoral... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Sebastien Cloutier, MA/14When I left my EFL teaching job in Japan to come do my Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University, my plan was to upgrade my education and qualifications in order to secure a teaching job at... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Matthew Falconer, PhD/19 MA/13My time in SLALS lasted between 2010 and 2019. After finishing an Honours BA in History, I did my MA between 2011 and 2013 and then worked in various places using writing and research skills I developed through the MA. I worked in... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Mike Celuch, MA/12The graduate program in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University paved the way to a challenging career at a Korean university. Many of the skills acquired during my graduate studies have now become... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Viviane Grandpierre, MA/12After graduating the Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies Masters program at Carleton University in 2012, I was hired as a research assistant at the Audiology Hearing Lab at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. After... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Aman Khan, MA/12I am writing today to express my great gratitude to School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University. The School awarded me with a scholarship and, over the past two years, gave me the opportunity to equip myself with... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018John F. Haggerty, MA/11After spending many years teaching English overseas, I decided in 2010 that an academic upgrade was necessary. Given my age and the length of time I had been out of academics (20 years), I was somewhat apprehensive about coming back... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Matthew Cochrane, MA/10 My time at SLaLS was instrumental in my current trajectory. Following completion of my degree, I completed an MSc in Speech-Language Pathology. I currently work in Quebec. I provide services to the minority Anglophone... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Jarret G. Geenen, MA/09I completed my MA in 2009 and the experience played a formative role in my professional development and career trajectory. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language & Culture at Radboud... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Karin Tomosky-Chambers, MA/09Hired by the Academic Health Council to write articles, documents and research regarding how to effectively use the OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) to assess teams rather than individually assessing medical... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018David Cooper, MA/09Prior to starting my degree at Carleton in 2007, I had been teaching part-time in an EAP program. Over that time, my reflective practices became increasingly focused on questions regarding the teaching and learning process(s)... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Lori Rosove, MA/09Coming back to university as a mature student certainly had its challenges, which I was only able to meet with the guidance of the outstanding faculty, whose compassion and wisdom exceeded my expectations. When I began the masters... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Michael Volek, MA/08During my time at Carleton, I developed an interest in discourse analysis based on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and APPRAISAL theory. After graduation, I joined the English department at the University of British Columbia,... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Maureen O’Connor, MA/07I graduated in 2007 with an MA in Applied Language Studies, with a focus on French immersion, core French studies, and writing (through my Teaching Assistantship at the Writing Tutorial Service). Following my degree, I worked at... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Fathiya Al Rashdi, MA/07Fathiya is a lecturer in the Department of English at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. Currently, she is also pursuing a PhD in Sociolinguistics at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. (Last updated: 28 May,... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Phillip Sloan, MA/07The Masters program in Applied Language Studies played a pivotal role in launching my academic career, and represents a positive turning point in my life. I came to Carleton from Detroit after finishing my Masters in Education, hoping... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Amanda Juby, MA/06My quality of life was and remains amazing. I have had the opportunity to explore who I am as a person and as a teacher. It has been an interesting journey, not always easy. My life has slowed down. I haven’t worn a watch in two... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Ann Evers, MA/06I decided to go to Carleton after working as an ESL teacher for five years. The Applied Language Studies program interested me because I wanted to learn new skills that would help me transition into another area of expertise within... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Katie Bryant, MA/05In December of 2005, I completed my Masters degree in Applied Language Studies. My research was based in the Writing Studies stream of this programme. Since completing my studies, I have held numerous exciting professional... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Mish Boutet, MA/05Shortly after graduating from SLaLS, I started working as a research coordinator at the Academy for Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine. Among other things, my job involved helping PhD and... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Erin Bidlake, MA/05In 2005 I completed my MA in Applied Language Studies at Carleton University. My MA research explored self-instructed language learning using commercial audio packages. After taking a year off from my studies to teach EFL in Japan,... MoreThursday, August 23, 2018Xuemei Li, MA/03I spent two wonderful years at Carleton. What I learned and what I did research on while in SLALS contributed significantly to my subsequent doctoral research. This research was mostly centered on identities of cross-cultural... 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