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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Falconer and Smart publish on the genre of climate change

Graham Smart and Matthew Falconer recently published an open-access chapter called "Genre, uptake, and the recontextualization of climate change science by 'denialist' cultural communities". In the chapter, Smart and Falconer look at the ways that three denialist cultural communities – the Cornwall Alliance, the Heartland Institute, and the Tea... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Former MA Student Julian Heidt’s First Publication

At the end of 2020, Julian was pleased to see that his first publication entitled, "Levelling up comprehensible input and vocabulary learning: The lexical profile of videogames" appear in the new edited volume, Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice. The chapter represents the background work that allowed him to complete his... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Syntactic development and reading comprehension in children

This recently published study investigates the relation between children's understanding of canonical and non-canonical sentences (presented in the spoken domain) and their general reading comprehension. These results demonstrate that, at least in the 5th grade, English-speaking children use their understanding of canonical sentences to... More

Monday, February 1, 2021

Looking for families to participate in a language acquisition study

We are looking for families (who live in Canada) to participate in our study about how children learn language. This study involves telling stories to go with a set of pictures. One thing we are interested in is the way siblings talk to each other, so families need to have at least two children... More

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Exciting news from the American Sign Language (ASL) Program!

Denise: We are very excited to announce that Josée-Sarah Bower, ASL-English Interpreter, is our newest staff interpreter! As some of you may already know, Josée has an extensive background of experience in sign language interpreting. She is highly professional, is accompanied by integrity and ethics, and she has an engaging personality! We are... More

Monday, January 18, 2021

Team presents online learning resources at 52nd Algonquian Conference

Undergraduate Student Jérémie Ambroise and Alumni MA student Claire Owen presented with Prof. Junker at the 52nd Algonquian Conference. From Online Dictionary to Living Online Dictionary: The Innu dictionary in 2020 (Ambroise & Junker) The Online Learning Platform for Algonquian Languages (Owen & Junker) Online Lessons Innu East Cree... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Program Spotlight: Linguistics and Language Studies

Listen to a conversation between Dr. Beth MacLeod and student Anna as they discuss the how's and why's behind Anna's decision to study at Carleton.... More

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Can children with Special Education Needs Succeed in French Immersion?

Yes, they can! An examination of EQAO data suggests that children with special education needs who are enrolled in French immersion have higher English academic performance compared to children with special education needs who are enrolled in the English Language of Instruction program. To find out more about these findings and to read more... More

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Gentil published in special issue

Drawing on the notion of biliteracy as the “the conjunction of literacy and bilingualism,” this article reports on multiple ongoing case studies of multilingual university students developing academic literacies simultaneously in French and English. Interview data and textual and video records of students’ writing practices were used to... More

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Grad Research: Understanding the Autistic University Student Experience

Jacquie Ballantine, a PhD candidate from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, is focusing her research on how autistic students experience being, learning and communicating at... More

Friday, November 27, 2020

Speaker Series: Dr. Clay Spinuzzi

Many thanks to Dr. Clay Spinuzzi for his recent online presentation "Achieving balance: Applying Vygotskian mediation to time management." Session Recording About the Session How do people manage their time, and how can they do it more effectively? Although time management involves cognitive abilities (executive functions), it also involves... More

Monday, November 23, 2020

Info Sessions for SLaLS Graduate programs

When: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Where: Zoom room information will be provided when you register. More Info (Linguistics) More Info (Applied Linguistics & Discourse... More

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