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Thursday, July 9, 2020
It is time to celebrate the retirement and career of one of the great overachievers of SLALS. Janna Fox has been a remarkable researcher, a gifted teacher, and an inspiring colleague for decades, and the School will not be the same without her. Over the course of her career at Carleton University, Janna has... More
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Natasha Artemeva's application (with Jacquie Ballantine) for the Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grant, "Identifying effects of rapid COVID-19 related changes on autistic university students' academic and social experiences,” was... More
Monday, May 4, 2020
Join us in congratulating MA student Melissa Dane on winning the 2018-19 Director’s Award for Outstanding Research Essay for her exemplary essay titled Ojibway Stories Today in the Face of Language... More
Dr. Tamara Sorenson Duncan in collaboration with Dr. Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta) recently published an article in the Journal of Child Language about the relation between children's emerging L2 (English) abilities and the L2 input they receive at home. Using hierarchical linear regression modelling with controls for age, non-verbal... More
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Join us during the late summer term (July-August) for a special topics course, “Methods in Corpus Linguistics,” taught by Dr. Christopher Cox. This graduate-level seminar provides an introduction to central concepts and common analytical techniques in corpus linguistics, an approach to studying language that focuses on collections of... More
Friday, April 3, 2020
Congratulations to PhD candidate Codie Fortin Lalonde, on being awarded the inaugural Lynne Young Graduate Award. The award recognizes academic excellence of a graduate student in the School's Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies program. It was established in 2019 in memory of longtime faculty member Dr. Lynne Young and is valued at... More
Monday, March 30, 2020
Congratulations to SLaLS professors Chris Cox and Marie-Odile Junker and their respective students/research team on the recent publication of articles in a special publication edition of Language Documentation & Conservation, (SP 20) Collaborative Approaches to the Challenges of Language Documentation and Conservation: Integrating... More
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Janna Fox on receiving a 2019-20 Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award. "Janna is without a doubt the most genuine and encouraging person I have had the opportunity to be taught and mentored by. She cares deeply for her students, both academically and personally and has been a light through the struggles of... More
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
The graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) is excited to present their 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. Celebrating 15 Years: Reflecting Back and Thinking Forward in ALDS! Friday, March 13th, 2020 This event has been postponed. Please check back regularly for updates. 252 MacOdrum Library 1:30 -... More
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
There was a great presence of Carleton University people at the TESL Ottawa Winter PD Conference. It was held at Algonquin College on Saturday, February 8, 2020. Carleton was represented in the audience and the presenters. Dr. Geoffrey Pinchbeck gave the first plenary on “Using diagnostic vocabulary tests and text analysis software to match... More
Thursday, January 30, 2020
This year's theme: Celebrating 15 Years: Reflecting Back and Thinking Forward in ALDS Call for Proposals The graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) is excited to present our call for abstracts for the 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium! The symposium brings together and showcases graduate student... More
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Things have been happening for PhD student Britt Amell. She, along with Carleton’s Dr. Sophie Tamas (Geography) and Maria Dabboussy (English), have co-established and launched the Emotional Geographies Lab, a virtual space dedicated to supporting research and inquiry into emotional geographies. Her chapter on “imposter syndrome” in higher... More
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