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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Congratulations to SLaLS Assistant Director (Modern Languages) Dr. Iryna Kozlova and colleagues at Algonquin College on receiving Honourable Mention for their project "Language Teaching and Language Learning in a 3D Immersive Virtual Environment" in the International E-Learning category of the International e-Learning Association awards. Dr.... More
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Applied Linguistics Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami is currently researching the tensions, challenges, opportunities, and threats surrounding Kurdish, the language and the people. Here what he had to say to the Chronicle of Higher Education.... More
Monday, June 24, 2013
Congratulations to ALDS professor Dr. Natasha Artemeva and collaborator Dr. Craig Bennell (Psychology) on receiving a 2013 Development Grant for proposed research into “The Genre of the Suicide... More
Congratulations to Dr. David Wood for being one of eight recipients of the 2013 FASS Junior Research Award, for his project, "An Idiodynamic Investigation of the Relationship between Willingness to Communicate and Speech Fluency in a Second Language". ... More
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Carleton University is pleased to announce a new collaborative MA in Digital Humanities. The program is designed to add value to existing degree programs by offering courses focused on the rapidly growing field of digital humanities. Applicants must already be enrolled in one of the participating MA programs and, upon completion of their... More
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
SLaLS recognized five outstanding teaching assistants for their outstanding service during the 2012/2013 academic year at an event Monday, May 12. Congratulations and heartfelt appreciation to recipients of this year's SLaLS Outstanding TA Awards. Sarah Cebukski nominated by Ann Laubstein (Linguistics) Chloe-Grace Fogerty-Bourget nominated... More
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Congratulations to ALDS graduate student Don Myles on receiving a 2013 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for his work in the academic English as a Second Language program.... More
Friday, November 9, 2012
Buried under her master’s studies at McGill University, with midterms looming, 23-year-old Fayden Sara Bokhari takes a few hurried minutes to reflect on her three years at Carleton University pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in applied linguistics and discourse studies (ALDS), with a minor in psychology. Winner of the Chancellor’s Medal as... More
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Visit the Genre Studies Network group on Facebook to listen to Natasha Artemeva’s 6 October 2012 presentation “Learning genres of teaching: A rhetorical approach to the study of written... More
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies faculty members Trudy O'Brien and Lynne Young passed a milestone this past month celebrating 35 years of service at Carleton University! We are fortunate to have benefited from the dedication of two such wonderful... More
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Congratulations today to Melissa McLeod, who on the basis of her extraordinary performance while a student at SLaLS, has been awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Master’s level by the Carleton University Senate. Melissa's thesis, directed by Janna Fox, is entitled Looking for an ounce of prevention: The potential... More
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. Guillaume Gentil. His article, A Biliteracy Agenda for Genre Research, [Link removed 29 April, 2015] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1060374310000597 was awarded an honourable mention for JSLW Best Article for 2011 by the editorial board of the Journal of Second Language... More
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