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Thursday, April 7, 2022
Congratulations to Drs. Janna Fox and Natasha Artemeva on the publication of their book “Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity” (Routledge,... More
Friday, March 25, 2022
Dr. Ruth Kircher spoke to us Tuesday from The Netherlands. Her lecture explored questions of how and why parents choose raise their children multilingually, focusing on the Quebec context. The nuanced circumstance of French and English in the province was examined as was the influence of numerous heritage languages. The first study explored the... More
Friday, March 18, 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Angel Arias for receiving the Early Career Research Award. This award is designed to support the development of research programs by newer faculty members in FASS. "Applied linguistics relies on various constructs (e.g., motivation, language aptitude, resilience, teacher cognition, etc.) to study language learning issues and... More
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
SLaLS contract instructor Dr. Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale recently presented at the 1st International Online Systemic Functional Linguistics Interest Group (SFLIG) Conference with colleagues Dr. Maria Estela Brisk (Boston College) and Elizabeth MacDonald (Boston Public Schools). Their talk was titled "Teaching writing informed by Systemic Functional... More
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers has put together a video series called Languages Build. In the fourth installment, they interview Tamara Sorenson Duncan about second language learning in students with exceptionalities. If you're interested in learning more, you can watch the 5 minute video... More
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Congratulations to the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas project team on the recent release of a suite of conversation apps to support the teaching and learning of Algonquian languages: Dr. Marie Odile Junker (Project Director) Claire Owen (Assistant Project Director) Delasie Torkornoo (Technical Director) Officially launched October 14th at the 53rd... More
Monday, October 25, 2021
SLaLS faculty member Dr.Rachelle Vessey gave an invited talk on language ideology and corpus linguistics in the series "Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research" (University of Murcia, Spain). She also presented new research about Canadian Chief Medical Officer's public health advice at the "Language of COVID-19 Conference" (University... More
Thursday, May 6, 2021
We note with great sadness, the passing of Janice Yalden, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton, founding Director of Carleton's Centre for Applied Language Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts during the 80's and 90's. Professor Yalden spent many years at Carleton as a researcher, teacher, and... More
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Join professor Erik Anonby and family in this BBC travelogue as they spend a year experiencing life, language, and culture amongst the people of Kuzmar, a small village on Oman's north... More
Monday, April 12, 2021
If you're wondering what action adventure games, air traffic control, and saying no in customer service have in common, you clearly weren't at the first virtual grad student symposium held 26 March, 2021 in BrightSpace. The event opened with a welcome message from School Director, Dr. David Wood, and the presentation of the annual... More
Thursday, April 1, 2021
While many of us were hibernating, others were completing their graduate degrees in ALDS! Congratulations to Hesam Farahani, Megan Ouellette and Fazal Ahmad on completing their MA degrees and to Nina Dore on completing her... More
Friday, March 26, 2021
Congratulations to Osama Elbeyaly, this year’s winner of the Lynne Young ALDS Graduate Award. “I have always been interested in language, how people use it to express themselves in various social situations, and how it can be used to affect people’s decisions/beliefs, etc... My interest in Applied Linguistics and Discourse studies was... More
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