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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Speaker Series with Dr. Amir Kalan

Translingual Writing as Resistance against the Writingworld’s Monoglossic Doxa  Dr. Amir Kalan (McGill University) February 10th, 2023 2:30pm-4:00pm Online Only (Zoom) Please register here.     Amir Kalan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) at McGill University. In his work, he attempts... More

Monday, January 23, 2023

Linguistics and Writing MECP Mini-Course

Carleton University and the University of Ottawa's Mini-Enrichment Course Programs (MECP) offer students in grades 8 to 11 the opportunity to participate in a week long University mini-course. Graduate Students from both institutions are invited to develop and deliver unique courses in their area of study, with the purpose of engaging young... More

Friday, December 16, 2022

SLaLS Holiday Office Closures

Happy Holidays! Our two SLaLS main offices will be closed for the Holidays from Friday December 23rd until January 4th. We wish you all a happy and safe holiday season, and a wonderful new year! -SLaLS... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Phil Boland Memorial Scholarship Recipients

This year’s Phil Boland Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Felix Cardinal Tremblay (a Software Engineering major with a Japanese minor), and Page Noualy (a Computer Science major with a Japanese minor). The scholarship was established by the Boland family after their son passed away on November 18, 2019, during his studies at Carleton. Phil... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Korean instructor Hyounjeong Yoo presented at the International Network for Korean Language and Culture conference

Korean instructor Hyounjeong Yoo presented at the annual conference of the International Network for Korean Language and Culture. HyounjeongYoo presented on how cultural contents, specifically films, can contribute to intercultural communication in Korean as a foreign... More

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami Published

Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami, and Dr. Rahim Surkhi (Adjunct Research Professor) publish: Sheyholislami, J., & Surkhi, R. (2022). Lexical variation across Kurdish In Y. Matras, G. Haig, and E. Opengin (Eds.), Structural and typological variation in the dialects of Kurdish (pp. 13-63). Palgrave... More

Friday, November 11, 2022

A new Innu dictionary App

Dr. Marie-Odile Junker and her team have developed a new dictionary app for the innu-aimun language spoken in Quebec and Labrador. This (2022) edition of the Innu dictionary (also available as a full online version on innu-aimun.ca) features Carleton Innu student Jérémie Ambroise as co-editor, alongside Dr. Marie-Odile Junker (SLaLS) and Dr.... More

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Curry Culture Communication

Emmett Harris (2020), a former student who minored in Japanese, gave an enlightening talk about his translation work for upper-year Japanese students in SLaLS on November 2nd. Emmett translated a Japanese short story called Curry Rice by Kiyoshi Shigematsu into English. He first read this story in a Reading Japanese Kanji course. As an... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

Dr. Hirotani published in PLOS ONE

Dr. Hirotani and her colleagues have published a new article, “African American English speaking 2nd graders, verbal –s, and educational achievement: Event related potential and math study findings”. The article investigates the impact dialectal differences have on African American English (AAE) speaking 2nd graders’ performance on... More

Thursday, November 3, 2022

SLaLS Open House

SLaLS faculty members and students hosted a table at Carleton’s Open House on October 22nd. The event provided an opportunity to meet potential students and their parents and/or guardians in a relaxed and informal setting. The team answered questions and showcased the many programs that SLaLS offers. We hope, of course, that some of... More

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Autism Research at SLaLS

Dr. Natasha Artemeva and PhD Candidate Jacquie Ballantine have put together a growing group of students and professors who are engaged in research into the lived experience of autistic students. "We are committed to participatory co-production of research with both autistic and non-autistic researchers and students to ensure that we conduct... More

Thursday, October 6, 2022

Facilitating Cognitive Presence Online: Perception and Design

Julie McCarroll and Peggy Hartwick's article titled 'Facilitating Cognitive Presence Online: Perception and Design Online' was published in the Online Learning Journal –Volume 26 Issue 2 –June 2022. Julie and Peggy will be presenting their findings (online) at the 19th Annual TSLL (Technology for Second Language Learning) conference on October... More

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