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Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers has put together a video series called Languages Build. In the fourth installment, they interview Tamara Sorenson Duncan about second language learning in students with exceptionalities. If you're interested in learning more, you can watch the 5 minute video... More
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Instead of writing a traditional term paper, Megan Hooper created this fantastic video illustrating what she learned in LING 4901 this summer. This video discusses heritage language maintenance among families who have moved internationally.... More
Monday, April 12, 2021
Emma Bornheimer recently presented her undergraduate thesis work about netspeak use and autism at the American Association for Applied Linguistics virtual conference. This work examines netspeak, specifically on reddit, and found that self-identified autistic individuals, when compared to Reddit users generally, exhibited a similar variety of... More
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
New research from Tamara Sorenson Duncan and her collaborators at Dalhousie University considers the skills children with ASD use to understand what they read. Using a statistical method to summarize existing research, they found that the reading comprehension of children with ASD was related to a similar extent to both their ability to read... More
Monday, February 1, 2021
This recently published study investigates the relation between children's understanding of canonical and non-canonical sentences (presented in the spoken domain) and their general reading comprehension. These results demonstrate that, at least in the 5th grade, English-speaking children use their understanding of canonical sentences to... More
Hesam Farahani successfully defended his MA thesis on Jan. 15, 2021. His thesis - titled “Is Phonological Short-Term Memory Related to Orthographic Learning?” - examined individual difference factors in university student’s orthographic... More
We are looking for families (who live in Canada) to participate in our study about how children learn language. This study involves telling stories to go with a set of pictures. One thing we are interested in is the way siblings talk to each other, so families need to have at least two children... More
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Yes, they can! An examination of EQAO data suggests that children with special education needs who are enrolled in French immersion have higher English academic performance compared to children with special education needs who are enrolled in the English Language of Instruction program. To find out more about these findings and to read more... More
Monday, May 4, 2020
Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan in collaboration with Dr. Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) recently published an article in the Journal of Child Language about the relation between children's emerging L2 (English) abilities and the L2 input they receive at home. Using hierarchical linear regression modelling with controls for age, non-verbal... More
Congratulations to fourth-year Linguistics student Emma Bornheimer on being awarded a FASS Undergraduate Summer Research Internship in the 2020 competition. Emma will be working on her project, Netspeak, Autism, and the Internet: Contextual Analysis of Netspeak, under the supervision of Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan. We look forward to hearing about... More
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in social communication and restricted and repetitive behaviors. These behavioral differences are often accompanied by difficulties in language acquisition, leading many to conclude that bilingualism is too challenging for children with ASD.... More
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