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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

SLaLS well-represented at TESL Ottawa

There was a great presence of Carleton University people at the TESL Ottawa Winter PD Conference. It was held at Algonquin College on Saturday, February 8, 2020. Carleton was represented in the audience and the presenters. Dr. Geoffrey Pinchbeck gave the first plenary on “Using diagnostic vocabulary tests and text analysis software to match... More

Thursday, January 30, 2020

15th Annual Grad Student Symposium – Call for Abstracts

This year's theme: Celebrating 15 Years: Reflecting Back and Thinking Forward in ALDS Call for Proposals The graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) is excited to present our call for abstracts for the 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium! The symposium brings together and showcases graduate student... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

New accomplishments for PhD student

Things have been happening for PhD student Britt Amell.  She, along with Carleton’s Dr. Sophie Tamas (Geography) and Maria Dabboussy (English), have co-established and launched the Emotional Geographies Lab, a virtual space dedicated to supporting research and inquiry into emotional geographies. Her chapter on “imposter syndrome” in higher... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Writing centre conferences: tutors’ perceptions and practices

Congratulations to PhD candidate Hatem Aldohon, on his recent publication in the Journal of Educational Studies.  The article, Writing centre conferences: tutors’ perceptions and practices, investigates “…the perceptions and actual practices of two experienced tutors with respect to one-on-one tutoring sessions in the writing... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Special issue of international journal features articles by current MA students

Natasha Artemeva and her Brazilian colleagues Milena Moretto, Cleide Inês Wittke, and Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão have recently co-edited a special issue of the academic journal Horizontes published in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish by the University of São Francisco in Brazil. The English title of the special issue is... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Autism and Bilingualism Webinar Now Available Online

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

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Colloquium on genre knowledge

Guillaume Gentil recently attended the SSLW (Symposium on Second Language Writing) 2019 symposium where he served as a discussant for a colloquium organized by University of Arizona’s Chris Tardy on how writers build genre knowledge and awareness across... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Walking the translanguaging talk

Guillaume Gentil walks the translanguaging talk in his recent article“Translanguaging and Multilingual Academic Literacies: How Do We Translate That into French? Should We? Pour en faire quoi ? (et pourquoi s'en faire?)”. The article, which alternates between French and English (with strategies for non-French readers to follow along), is an... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

A Spanish instructor in Paris

During a recent trip to France, Spanish instructor Janett Martinez-Amador met with Mª Teresa de Santos Borreguero, chair of Spanish program at the Cervantes Institute in Paris to share experiences of teaching Spanish in postsecondary settings. Topics discussed included: language testing, how best to introduce the cultural component in language... More

Monday, January 27, 2020

Offered this summer, Constraint-Based Syntax

In the early summer term 2020 (May 4 - June 16) SLaLS will be offering LING 4009/5009, a Special Topics course on Constraint-Based Syntax, taught by Prof. Ash Asudeh. The current schedule is Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:35-14:25. This course may attract non-Carleton students, some of whom may be from outside Ottawa.  These students,... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

New graduate Linguistics programs launched

After years in development, the School has finally received the go-ahead to launch a full suite of graduate programs in Linguistics.  Following on the heels of expanded undergraduate offerings including a new BSc announced earlier this year, the new graduate programs are now accepting applicants and will welcome their first cohorts in Fall... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

MOU opens up opportunities for Carleton students…in Korea

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed and action plan developed to encourage Carleton University students visit and experience Korea.  Under the agreement, qualified Carleton University students will be able to access TaLK (Teach and Learn in Korea) placement opportunities and receive funding support from the Korean Government... More

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