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Friday, March 22, 2024

Beth MacLeod and Tamara Sorenson Duncan Receive SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Congratulations to Professors Beth MacLeod and Tamara Sorenson Duncan on receiving SSHRC Insight Development Grants in the February 2023 competition. Beth’s project “Individual variation in the perception-production link: evidence from phonetic imitation,” with a co-applicant at the University of Ottawa, explores the link between the way an... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Students Share Practicum Experience in Speech Language Pathology

The School of Linguistics and Language Studies proudly offers a practicum in Speech Language Pathology (SLP) through LING 4604. This field placement course allows students to pursue personal learning objectives related to the clinical application of research in psycholinguistics, communication differences and disabilities, and language... More

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

SLaLS Faculty Featured in FASS Research Review

Two SLaLS faculty members are featured in the inaugural edition of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Research Review - a publication that celebrates the vibrant, multidisciplinary landscape of research within FASS. Professor Erik Anonby, an expert on languages of the Middle East, is featured for his work supporting endangered language... More

Monday, October 30, 2023

Students Host Information Fair on Neurodiversity in the University Classroom

As part of Carleton University’s 5th Annual Inclusion Week, students in Professor Tamara Sorenson Duncan’s LING/ALDS 3604 Communication Differences II course organized and hosted an information fair in St. Patrick’s building. The event, which took place on October 17, 2023, brought students, faculty, and staff together to learn more about... More

Monday, April 17, 2023

Mikaÿla Perrier’s Independent Study on Adult Dyslexia Turned Ebook Featured in The Charlatan

Discover "What is Adult Dyslexia — A Guide for Adult Dyslexics," a self-published ebook by Mikaÿla Perrier, a fourth-year Cognitive Science student, and learn about how Dyslexia presents differently in adulthood. This work grew from LING 4901, an independent study that Mikaÿla completed in the summer term of ’22, supervised by Tamara... More

Monday, April 17, 2023

Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan of SLALS receives the Early Career Research Award

Congratulations, Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan for receiving the Early Career Research Award. This award is designed to support the development of research programs by newer faculty members in FASS. “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures is only beginning to be understood, with concerns especially pertinent for students... More

Monday, February 6, 2023

Dr. Angel Arias Published

Dr. Angel Arias of SLaLS has two recent publications. The first publication draws on argument-based validation to gather validity evidence based on the internal structure of an L2 listening comprehension test used for immigration purposes in the province of Quebec. The research also provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct confirmatory... More

Friday, February 25, 2022

LING / ALDS 3604 builds connection between theory and practice

LING/ALDS 3604 would like to extend a huge thank you to Mme. Lockhart for sharing her insights and experience surrounding the Structured Literacy Approach. Also, a huge thank you to students, Mikayla Perrier and Helena Veenkamp, who interviewed Mme. Lockhart. This interviewed was shared with the 3604 class and provided students with an opportunity... More

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers interviews Tamara Sorenson Duncan

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

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Chris Smith published in RELC Journal

Chris Smith, a graduate of the Ph.D. in ALDS and a current contract instructor in SLaLS was recently published in the RELC Journal. Smiths paper, "One Does Not Simply Teach Idioms: Meme Creation as Innovative Practice for Virtual EFL Learners" can be found here.  ... More

Monday, October 25, 2021

Public talks by Dr.Rachelle Vessey

SLaLS faculty member Dr.Rachelle Vessey gave an invited talk on language ideology and corpus linguistics in the series "Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research" (University of Murcia, Spain). She also presented new research about Canadian Chief Medical Officer's public health advice at the "Language of COVID-19 Conference" (University... More

Thursday, October 21, 2021

SLaLS research project featured in the Toronto news

Caitlin Bergin, a PhD candidate in Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Revitalization, was featured in the Toronto news last month! Bergin is currently working on a sociolinguistic research project which seeks to answer the question “how do Torontonians pronounce ‘Toronto’?” by utilizing a survey designed to i) determine which... More

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