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Thursday, June 23, 2022

Retirement Celebration 2022

Friday, 17 June, 2022 was a happy sad day as we celebrated the retirements of three of our long-time SLaLS colleagues: Yoko Azuma-Prikryl Renata de Pourbaix Ulrike Tallowitz Congratulations to all and fond wishes for the years ahead! The event was also a passing of the baton of sorts with David Wood wrapping up... More

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, June 15, 2022

Celebrating Nowruz

International Nowrooz Day marks the arrival of spring and new beginnings, but does the way we celebrate it bring with it a message of unity or... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

PhD candidate has a busy spring

Now in the 5th year of her program, PhD (ALDS) candidate Tina Beynen has had a busy few months with presentations at: STLHE (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) Annual Conference (June 7 – 10) "Reflexivity, assessment literacy, and student success during the transition to university" LLRC (Language & Literacy Researchers... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Losing one’s mother tongue in multicultural Canada

Jaffer Sheyholislami is in the news again, this time with insights on the current (and future) state of heritage languages in Canada. “One of the important causes of language shift and loss in Canada is the absence of robust language policies that would advocate and actively promote and support multilingualism and... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

SLaLS alumni Christopher Smith published

SLaLS alumni, Christopher Smith, has published a book! You may view it here. "Textbooks are indispensable components and in some case the cornerstones of the mission of English Language Teaching (ELT). However, they are artefacts of a pedagogical culture that rarely echo the concerns of their most prolific consumers: teachers and students. This... More

Monday, June 13, 2022

Blumenfeld published on phonology of Nauruan

Congratulations to Linguistics professor Lev Blumenfeld on the publication of two articles on the phonology Nauruan in the journal Oceanic Linguistics. Image Source: Adapted from Oceania_ISO_3166-1.svg: User:Tintazul; Derivative work: Cruickshanks, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia... More

Monday, May 30, 2022

Undergraduate Special Topic courses for 2022-2023

Undergraduate Special Topic courses for 2022-2023 The School of Linguistics and Language Studies is pleased to announce two special topic LING courses and two special topic ALDS courses for the 2022-2023 academic year.  Students can register for these courses at the same time as their other courses. Fall 2022 LING 4009 A – Special... More

Monday, May 16, 2022

Linguistics student Georgia Jay creates video about bimodal bilingual language acquisition

As part of her independent study in the Winter 2022 semester, Honours Linguistics student Georgia Jay made a video about bimodal bilingual language acquisition – i.e., learning signed and spoken languages simultaneously.  She talks about sign languages like ASL as well as popular simplified systems like "baby sign". The video is geared toward... More

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Dr. Rachelle Vessey of SLALS receives the Early Career Research Award

Congratulations, Dr. Rachelle Vessey for receiving the Early Career Research Award. This award is designed to support the development of research programs by newer faculty members in FASS. "Sexual misconduct has been identified as a problem in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Social problems are maintained at least in part through “discourse”... More

Monday, April 18, 2022

Dr. Erik Anonby of SLALS receives the Marston LaFrance Fellowship

Congratulations to Prof. Erik Anonby for receiving the Marston LaFrance Fellowship, FASS’s senior research achievement award. Anonby will use the time awarded by the fellowship to move scholarship and public discourses forward through the completion of a first benchmark map of the languages of Iran. “For all Iranians, this map provides an... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

MA student published on Canadian Language Museum blog

Congratulations to ALDS graduate student Nico Mjones on the publication of their recent and timely post on the Canadian Language Museum blog. “When the war in Ukraine kicked off in the news, I was obsessing over watching what was happening, but realized it was not helpful nor good for myself. I decided to do... More

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