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Monday, August 19, 2019
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) approach that takes centre stage at Carleton University, August 19-21,... More
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Nwara Abdulhamid - "What Is the Relationship Between Alignment and Washback? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Libyan EFL Context" (Supervisor: Dr. Janna Fox) Lin Chen - "Lexical Bundles in Vocabulary-based Discourse Units: A Corpus-based Study of First Year Core Engineering Textbooks" (Supervisor: Dr. David Wood) Chlöe Grace Fogarty-Bourget -... More
Friday, August 9, 2019
It is well established that input plays a major role in the second language (L2) acquisition process. Audio-visual input such as television (TV) and video can be considered a particularly rich source of L2 input. It not only exposes learners to authentic language use, but the combination of different input modes such as imagery... More
SLaLS welcomes returning alumna Dr. Rachelle Vessey to a tenure track position in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies effective July 2020. Since earning her MA in Applied Language Studies at Carleton in 2009, Rachelle has gone on to complete a PhD in linguistics at Queen Mary (University of London) and has held positions at... More
Monday, July 22, 2019
SLaLS congratulates MA student Hesam Farahani on winning the Full-time Student Academic Excellence Award from the Graduate Students’ Association. The $1000 GSA Full-time Student Academic Excellence Award is awarded annually in the Winter term to a returning, full-time graduate student, at either the Master’s or Doctoral level, who has... More
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Guillaume Gentil delivered the closing plenary - “Academic pluriliteracies in an age of technological acceleration: New tools, new research methods” – at the Genres and Languages Conference on the campus of the University of Zaragoza in Spain, May 19th. Gentil and his U of O colleague Jérémie Séror also made several presentations in... More
Congratulations to the 2019-2020 SALaDS (the Society of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies) committee who began their tenure on May 1: Social Coordinator: Fatima Ady Communications/Finances Coordinator and GSA Representative: Codie Fortin Lalonde Academic Co-Coordinators: Kyong Ho (Steven) Kim and Jeremiah Bell GSA Representative: Mounissa... More
Carleton professors Eva Kartchava and Michael Rodgers (along with RAs and alumni) are working with the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) on a work-based language training project that will support members of OCISO’s existing Refugee and Immigrant Supports to Employment (RAISE) program in their efforts to develop English... More
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Professor Marie-Odile Junker and her research team are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their East Cree and Innu online language lessons, which were first developed starting in 2006. In 2018-19, due to software obsolescence, the entire platform was redesigned and redeveloped thanks to a grant from the National Research... More
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Dear Colleagues, Friends, Former Students, In memory of Dr. Lynne Young who passed away in November 2018, we would like to start a campaign to solicit donations towards establishing an award in her name. Since Dr. Young was strongly interested in the issues and progress of graduate students we feel it to be most... More
After stops in New Zealand, Japan, and Hawaii, Dr. David Wood will round out his sabbatical as Visiting Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at York University in Toronto for May and June... More
ALDS PhD candidate Shahin Nematizadeh and Dr. David Wood to publish in Canadian Modern Language Review: Nematizadeh, S., & Wood, D. (in press). Willingness to communicate and second language speech fluency: An investigation of affective and cognitive dynamics. Canadian Modern Language... More
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