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Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Course Term Offered Topic/Title ALDS 3903 A Fall 2018 Indigenous Languages in Canada An overview of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada, providing an introduction to Indigenous language families in Canada and their linguistic features, Indigenous language education and revitalization, and Indigenous language rights, among other topics.... More
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Congratulations to recent PhD (Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies) graduate Saira Fitzgerald on the publication of her paper "When you’re in with the in-crowd: the discursive construction of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in a corpus of Canadian newspapers" in the Journal of Language &... More
Thursday, May 10, 2018
ALDS PhD candidates Lina AlHassan and Olga Makinina have successfully defended their theses and are set to graduate. Lina AlHassan’s thesis, An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Formulaic Sequences in Upgrading EAP Students’ Academic Writing Skills, was defended April 20th, while Olga Makinina’s thesis, Factors Impacting Collocation... More
Friday, April 27, 2018
Interested in developing your proficiency in crafting clear and concise communication for professional contexts? Consider the Professional Writing Program, a recently-launched collaborative effort by the Department of English and School of Linguistics & Language Studies. Click here to learn... More
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Congratulations to ESLA instructor Julie McCarroll on winning a 2018 Contract Instructor Teaching Award. This award recognizes teaching excellence by Carleton University contract instructors McCarroll was also a recipient of a Contract Instructor Innovation Grant for her ongoing research of the effectiveness of ePortfolios as a pedagogical... More
Friday, March 2, 2018
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Thursday, February 1, 2018
PhD candidate Chloe Fogarty-Bourget recently returned from three months at the Auckland University of Technology’s Multimodal Research Centre in New... More
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Dr. Natasha Artemeva, Dr. Janna Fox, and past ALDS grad John Haggerty (MA/11) are recipients of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW) Annual Research Award 2017 for their book chapter entitled “Mitigating risk: The impact of a diagnostic assessment procedure on the first-year experience in engineering.”... More
Monday, January 8, 2018
Globe & Mail opinion piece cites "stem cell" research by Prof. Timothy Caufield, 2016 Carleton grad Dr. Christen Rachul, and Dr. Ivona... More
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Saira Fitzgerald, Adjunct Research Professor Dr. Lynne Young and third co-author Dr. Michael Fitzgerald on the publication of "The Power of Language" (2nd Edition) by Equinox Publishing. Saira has also published an article, "Perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian Universities" in the... More
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Learn more about the ALDS program: what it is, what you will learn, types of career paths you can follow, and how to... More
Monday, November 20, 2017
Former PhD student and now alumna, Saira Fitzgerald, was awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Doctoral Level at the Fall Convocation ceremony on Nov. 18. Fitzgerald said that the medal presentation left her with an “entire feeling of disbelief and a sense of I must be dreaming. This can’t be... More
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