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Thursday, October 5, 2017
Carleton University and the Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) are pleased to welcome Iranian Kurd scholar Rahim Surkhi as part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network. Professor Surkhi is the second scholar that we have hosted since becoming part of the network in 2014 and he will be with us for a year.... More
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
More than 150 people turned out to hear linguist and author Dr. Takehiro Kanaya speak about interconnectedness of language and culture in an event at Carleton University co-hosted by the School of Linguistics & Language Studies and the Embassy of... More
Friday, September 22, 2017
Congratulations to PhD candidate Saira Fitzgerald on the recent successful defence of her doctoral dissertation. Fitzgerald, whose thesis “Blackboard/Whiteboard: The discursive construction of the International Baccalaureate in Canada” explores how the International Baccalaureate program is thought about and talked about in Canada, was also... More
Earlier this month, ALDS professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, in collaboration with colleagues from Germany and Sweden, offered a week long Kurdish language course, the Kurdish Language Autumn School, at the University of Bamberg in... More
PhD candidate Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget is on the ground in New Zealand and ready to begin three-months of practical experience and specialized training with the Multimodal Research Centre (MRC) at Auckland University of Technology. Recipient of a SSHRC-Canada Graduate Scholarship and Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, Chloë will be... More
Monday, June 5, 2017
Congratulations to ALDS doctoral candidate Saira Fitzgerald on the publication of her article "Murderers, moonwalkers and markets: A corpus based critical discourse analysis of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian newspapers” in the upcoming edition of the CADAAD Journal. An advance copy of the article has been posted... More
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Spring has arrived and with it annual elections for SLaLS’ two student societies, SALADS for grad students and CATL for undergrads. Newly elected representatives are: SALADS (Society of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies) Communications/Finance coordinator: Alex Ross Social coordinator: Kate Day Academic coordinator: Britt Amell... More
Friday, April 7, 2017
Collaborative research by PhD candidates Peggy Hartwick (ALDS) and Nuket Nowlan (Information Technology - Digital Media), explores the use of immersive 3D virtual environments in language... More
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Well done Codie Fortin Lalonde and her awesome organizing committee (Matt Falconer, Alex Ross, Brent Campagnola, and Kirsten Paula) for putting together such a smoothly-run, well-attended, and super-informative symposium held yesterday in the Carleton Discovery Centre. The theme of this year’s symposium was “Beyond Boundaries: Navigating... More
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Janna Klostermann recently published research from her 2014 MA in Applied Linguistics. Please see 'Write like a visual artist' in the Literacy and Numeracy Studies... More
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
I completed my MA in Applied Language Studies in 2008 with a focus on writing studies. Soon after I began working as a research associate at the Health Law Institute at... More
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
LING 3009 A: Linguistic and Social Aspects of Inuktitut Description: This course explores both linguistic and social aspects of Inuktitut, the language of Canadian Inuit. In the first part of the course students will be introduced to the structure of Inuktitut through readings and a guest instructor. They will then analyze the phonology,... More
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