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Thursday, July 9, 2020

View from my window (June)

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

SLaLS well-recognized at CASDW awards

The following from Dr. Natasha Artemeva: It's is my pleasure to announce fresh from the AGM of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW): The John Pavelich Award for Best PhD Dissertation in Writing and Discourse Studies awarded to Matt Falconer (ALDS PhD 2019) for his dissertation "Providing Science Advice:... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Eastcree.org turns 20 years old

Intended as a resource for Cree language teachers, literacy instructors, translators, linguists, and anyone with an interest in the nuts and bolts of the East Cree language, the site has fostered many simliar sites since it was first established. What began as the dream of Carleton's Dr. Marie-Odile... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Dr. Janna Fox retires

It is time to celebrate the retirement and career of one of the great overachievers of SLALS. Janna Fox has been a remarkable researcher, a gifted teacher, and an inspiring colleague for decades, and the School will not be the same without her. Over the course of her career at Carleton University, Janna has... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Congratulations Spring 2020 Graduates

Congratulations to all Spring 2020 graduates in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, as well as Modern Language Minors, and new Certificate holders in Teaching English as a Second Language and American Sign Language. Congratulations videos  Meet the Graduates PhD Muftah Mohamed MA Fatima Ady Hiba Fazl Ullah Brandon Hoto... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Online language conversation sessions offered

The Language Learning Resource Centre is now offering regularly-scheduled online conversation groups.  Sessions are for Carleton language students and are hosted on cuLearn. At the moment, we offer ASL, German, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, as well as ESL. We know it’s summer and the world is a little bit turned upside down... More

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Special Topics courses announced (Fall 2020/Winter 2021)

SLaLS is excited to offer the following courses in the upcoming Fall and Winter terms: ALDS 3903 A: Forensic Linguistics (Fall 2020) ALDS 3903 B: Beyond the BA (Fall 2020) ALDS 3903 C: Indigenous Languages in Canada (Winter 2021) ALDS 4906 A: Affordances of Digital Technologies (Winter... More

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Director’s message to Spring 2020 graduates

Getting a degree is a real turning point in life, and I am so happy to see how well our SLALS students did at this month’s convocation! On behalf of all my colleagues here in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, I want to congratulate all grads on completing your studies and graduating... More

Friday, June 19, 2020

Taniguchi interviewed

Dr. Ai Taniguchi was interviewed June 15th by CBC Newfoundland & Labrador on the timely topic of language and racism.  Listen... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Rapid Research Response Grant funded

Natasha Artemeva's application (with Jacquie Ballantine) for the Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grant, "Identifying effects of rapid COVID-19 related changes on autistic university students' academic and social experiences,” was... More

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Strong performance by Carleton in annual Canada-wide Russian Writing Contest

April 10th marked the conclusion to the 3rd Annual Canada-wide Russian Writing Contest held by Carleton University, in cooperation with and supported by the Russia-Canada Business Council and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada, with the announcement of winners across several different categories. Join us in congratulating three... More

Monday, May 4, 2020

View from my window

With so many of us working from home, what are we looking at every day? "Collisions with glass kill 1 billion birds per year in North America." (Safe Wings Ottawa). Learn more at Safe Wings Ottawa and Feather... More

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