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Thursday, May 2, 2019
The 2018-19 Director’s Outstanding Research Essay Award goes to ALDS student Judith Lockett for her essay entitled “The Language of Sexual Assault in Canadian Courts." Congratulations to Judith and her supervisor Jaffer... More
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Snoddon on being awarded tenure effective July 1,... More
ALDS PhD candidate Chris Smith has been published in the April, 2019 edition of Discourse and Communication. His article Weaponized iconoclasm in Internet memes featuring the expression ‘Fake News analyzes 'fake news' Internet memes drawn from four popular social media... More
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Dr. Guillaume Gentil recently returned from AAAL where he and colleague Jérémie Séror presented a paper - "Translanguaging and biliteracy in a bilingual university: Student stances and ideologies" - as part of their ongoing longitudinal research on academic bi/pluriliteracy development among undergraduate students. His article, "D’une langue... More
Congratulations to Dr. Eva Kartchava. Her monograph entitled Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second Language Classroom: Background and Evidence has been published by Rowman &... More
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Dr. Saira Fitzgerald has been awarded a 2-year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research project "The global reach of the International Baccalaureate and its implications for education policy." The host institution for this Fellowship is Lancaster University, UK, and the supervisor is Prof. Tony... More
Language Mapping (Fall 2019) Cross-listed as: LING 4009 B ALDS 4906 B ALDS 5905 L GEOG 5803 F Language is something we do, rather than something tangible. So how can you map it? LING 4009 B / ALDS 4906/5905 offers a theoretical and practical approach to language mapping. We’ll begin with an introduction to... More
Monday, March 18, 2019
2017 Dunton Tower was buzzing last Thursday with the sounds (and sights) of the 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. The theme for this year’s Symposium was “Connecting Through Language” and the event featured more than twenty academic posters by students in the ALDS (Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies) Masters and PhD... More
Friday, March 8, 2019
A book chapter by ALDS PhD candidate Chloe Fogarty-Bourget - "Gestural silence: An engagement device in the multimodal genre of the chalk talk lecture" (in collaboration with Natasha Artemeva and Janna Fox) - is slated for publication in April 2019 as part of a new book in the Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, Engagement in Professional... More
Monday, February 4, 2019
Trudy O'Brien has just published (February 1st, 2019) a chapter in the book "Intercultural Foreign language teaching and learning." Her chapter is entitled "Bringing cross-cultural communication analysis into foreign language classrooms" and focuses on why helping L2 learners acquire such skills will help their transition into using the target... More
Hosted by Carleton University, August 19-21, 2019 Under the auspices of the "International Association for Task-Based Language Teaching", the 2019 TBLT Conference will bring together scholars and educators to the beautiful campus of Carleton University, located in Canada’s capital. Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is an educational framework... More
The graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) is excited to present our 14th Annual Graduate Student Symposium! This year's event will be held on Thursday, March 14th, 2019, in Dunton Tower, Room 2017, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. The theme is "Connecting Through Language". Call for Proposals Our goal is... More
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