Archives: Graduate Alumni

Friday, June 17, 2022

Areej Tayem, MA (ALDS)/20

My 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 development and teacher training introduced me to a whole other dimension of discourse studies that I got so fascinated... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Alisa Zavialova, PhD (ALDS)/20

Alisa 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 educator with almost ten years of experience ranging from teaching EFL to teaching LINC and EAP, she has always been... More

Monday, March 29, 2021

Christopher Smith, PhD (ALDS)/20

After 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 wanted to upgrade some courses to prepare for the SLaLS PhD program in 2016. I combined... More

Friday, July 3, 2020

Jacquie Ballantine, MA/17

After 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 a graduate degree in applied linguistics. I had already qualified as a TESL instructor and... More

Monday, December 9, 2019

Ruth Kennedy, MA/12

The 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 will focus on relational skills. My time at Carleton helped to strengthen my research,... More

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Keenan Wellar, MA/01

In 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 background in education, I was brought on in support of a federal government project called SchoolNet, which... More

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Lauren Murphy, MA/15

After 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 the theoretical concepts I learned to knowledge building in my workplace, the government of Canada,... More

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Nicole Jacobson, MA/16

I 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 environments. I currently work as a research facilitator with the Department of Academic Family Medicine’s... More

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Christen Rachul, MA/08, PhD/16

I 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 theory that I had gained during the MA program to conduct studies in... More

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Taelor Smith, MA/16

After 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 linguistic background at the graduate level while concurrently expanding on this knowledge in a... More

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Tina 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, and the unwavering support of faculty members and the office staff made my experience in the MA program far... More

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Alisa Zavialova, MA/15

I 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 passionate about language teaching and had taught English for several years prior to coming to Canada, I decided... More

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