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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
On Sept. 26, 2017, Carleton University doctoral candidate Lama Altoaimy uploaded her revised dissertation. Her analysis of how Twitter users in Saudi Arabia were debating the country’s ban on women driving had been successfully defended four days earlier and she was relieved and happy at the conclusion of her PhD program. Minutes later, relief... More
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
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