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Friday, November 9, 2018
It is with deep regret that we inform you of the death of Lynne Young who passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 7, 2018 surrounded by family. Professor Lynne Young first joined SLaLS in 1976 as an instructor. She later went on to complete a PhD at Leuven in Belgium in the area of Systemic... More
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
There was quite a crowd in Richcraft Hall over the weekend as members of various FASS departments, Public Affairs, and Sprott met with prospective students and their parents. Thanks to members of SLaLS faculty and staff who spent the day discussing the possibilities of a degree in Linguistics and/or Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies... More
Monday, October 29, 2018
PhD student Lisa Armstrong was recently featured on CBC's "The Sunday Edition": Aren't you too old for that? The late life plunge into a PhD. Her research in Applied Linguistics at Carleton University, examines sexual harassment in the hospitality... More
Monday, October 15, 2018
This past August, ALDS PhD students Rebekah Ingram and Adam Stone, and Linguistics professor Kumiko Murasugi journeyed to the University of Iceland, Reykjavík to participate in the 2018 Foundation for Endangered (FEL), Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism. This annual conference is organized each year by FEL in... More
Thursday, October 4, 2018
In June 2018, Christopher A. Smith, a doctoral candidate in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, attended a Symposium in Orebro, Sweden – “Using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis” (MCDA). On the second floor of an old, Victorian manor (Ostra Mark), at Orebro University campus, Chris joined host David Machin (Orebro... More
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Dr. Guillaume Gentil was a plenary speaker at the CCERBAL 2018 Conference, on Translanguaging: Opportunities and Challenges in a Global World, which was held at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), University of Ottawa. The plenary, first available to Facebook users, can now be viewed on YouTube. In keeping with a... More
Dr. Saira Fitzgerald presented her research at the Corpora and Discourse International Conference (CAD 2018) held at Lancaster University in June. The title of her paper was "One hundred times a better person": A corpus based critical discourse analysis of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian... More
Second Language Research Forum is an international conference on Second Language Acquisition (SLA) organized and run by graduate students. Since its first event in 1977, the conference has attracted established and budding scholars to “present work on a wide variety of theoretical and empirical issues in SLA including cognitive, linguistic and... More
Prof. Gentil has begun a two-year term as Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics/Association canadienne de linguistique appliquée (CAAL/ACLA). One of his main roles will be to co-chair the annual CAAL/ACLA conference, which next year will take place June 3-5, 2019, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, as... More
Friday, August 31, 2018
Dr. Kristin Snoddon was a plenary speaker at the LPP Conference: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning, August 23-25 at OISE. Her talk was entitled “Sign Language Planning and Policy in Ontario Teacher... More
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Course Term Offered Topic/Title ALDS 3903 A Fall 2018 Indigenous Languages in Canada An overview of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada, providing an introduction to Indigenous language families in Canada and their linguistic features, Indigenous language education and revitalization, and Indigenous language rights, among other... More
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Congratulations to recent PhD (Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies) graduate Saira Fitzgerald on the publication of her paper "When you’re in with the in-crowd: the discursive construction of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in a corpus of Canadian newspapers" in the Journal of Language &... More
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