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Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Congratulations to Drs. Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox who received the 2012 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. Their winning article, “Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students’ Antecedent Genre Knowledge" can be found in... More
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Thanks to everyone who put together, attended, and participated in the 7th Annual Graduate Student Symposium for... More
Friday, July 8, 2011
New this Fall, SLaLS offers an undergraduate course in corpus linguistics, ALDS 3701. This course, taught by Guillaume Gentil, will give students the opportunity to use specialized corpus-analysis software to design and build their own corpora. Computer-assisted corpus analysis is a growing field within Applied Linguistics, especially among those... More
Monday, June 27, 2011
Heads up to first year students with an interest in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies. The School of Linguistics and Language studies is offering a First Year Seminar "Language, Identity, and Canadian Nation Building" (FYSM 1612) this fall. Taught by Dr. Guillaume Gentil, the course will examine questions of language and national... More
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami on the publication of his first book: Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New... More
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Congratulations go out to Graham Smart as a recipient of a Faculty of Arts and Social Science Research Award for Junior Faculty (2011). Read the abstract for his research project below. Overcoming Discursive Barriers to Public Understanding in the Debate over Climate Change: The Rhetorical Uses of Science - Graham Smart A major hindrance... More
Friday, April 15, 2011
Congratulations to Richard Thompson who has been named one of the four outstanding TAs in the university. He is the TA for ALDS 4801/5103 and his nomination was supported by extremely strong letters of support from the majority of the students in the... More
Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Important Notice About Degree Name Change Our programs (majors, minors, Master’s) in Applied Language Studies will be formally renamed Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies as of July 1st, 2010. The new name is intended to better reflect our disciplinary connection to three fields of scholarship: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Studies, and... More
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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