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Friday, June 10, 2016
Congratulations to Christen Rachul! First graduate from the PhD program in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, Christen was awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at today's commencement ceremonies. Read... More
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Rachul studies how media coverage of topics in health science affects public perceptions and health policy. Research for her dissertation dealt with "Eating Well with Canada’s Food... More
Friday, May 20, 2016
Congratulations to ALDS doctoral candidate Saira Fitzgerald on receiving a Graduate Student Open Access Award (2015-2016) on the basis of her paper "Perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Ontario Universities”. The paper, written initially in the context of her Doctoral Core Seminar class, was later published in the Canadian... More
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
May 6th marked a milestone for Carleton’s new PhD program in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies: the successful defence of its first graduating PhD student, Christen Rachul. Rachul, who completed her MA at Carleton in 2008, began her doctoral studies in 2012, the inaugural year of the program, after three years with the Health... More
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Queen’s Park appears to be on the verge of undoing more than a century of progress for deaf children. The province should change course before it does lasting... More
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
"When I tell people that I am studying Linguistics and Discourse Studies, the common response that I get is, “Oh, what is that?” You have probably all heard of linguistics before and know that it has something to do with language, but what is it really all about?" Visit the Admissions student blogger site... More
Friday, April 22, 2016
The language of texting is a special world where using a period can mean you're angry or annoyed, LOL doesn't necessarily mean you're actually laughing out loud, ellipsis (...) can mean one of at least 12 different things, and watch out if you don't respond to a text after the right amount of time.... More
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
When it comes to a student’s undergraduate university experience, Teaching Assistants play an important role and a truly exceptional TA can have a lasting influence on students long after the final mark is submitted. Today SLaLS celebrated the contributions of 4 outstanding TA’s at the 2015-16 SLaLS Outstanding TA Awards. And while the... More
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
SLaLS made a strong showing last Wednesday’s annual Vin d’Honneur celebration held at the Carleton University Art Gallery. Congratulations to Marie-Odile Junker on winning a FASS Research Award and to Eva Kartchava on her FASS Teaching Award. Also on display were books by faculty members published in the past year: Ida Toivonen David Wood... More
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Some students, for one reason or another, have never considered a university career. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t enjoy and benefit from pursuing one. Co-created by FASS faculty members (now retired) Dr. Aviva Freedman (Applied Language Studies) and Dr. Dennis Forcese (Sociology & Anthropology) co-founded the Enriched Support... More
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Congratulations to Graham Smart on the appearance of his article, “Discourse Coalitions, Science Blogs, and the Public Debate on Global Climate Change.” In Anis Bawarshi & Mary Jo Reiff (Eds.), Genre and the Performance of Publics. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.... More
Congratulations to Janna Fox on the appearance of her co-edited book (with Vahid Aryadoust), Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice: the view from the Middle East and the Pacific Rim, published by Cambridge Scholars... More
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