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Friday, April 26, 2024

Professor Mako Hirotani to Present at Upcoming TLS Event on Accessibility in the Classroom

On Tuesday, May 7, Professor Mako Hirotani will share her experiences with accessibility and barriers in the modern classroom. The event, "Accessibility Spotlight: Strategies for Reducing Classroom Barriers for Student with Disabilities," will be hosted by TLS from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in room 481 of the MacOdrum Library (the Future Learning... More

Friday, April 19, 2024

Celebrating Student Research

As we finish up another term, it is a fitting time to celebrate the brilliant research output from students in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies. Earlier this month, the graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) hosted their 19th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in St. Patrick's Building. The... More

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Kumiko Murasugi Receives FASS Research Excellence Award

Congratulations to Professor Kumiko Murasugi, who has received a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Research Excellence Award. The FASS Research Excellence Awards are meant to assist with advancing a program of research. In this case, the award will support Murasugi's project titled "Documenting Language in the Field: A Guide to Small... More

Monday, April 15, 2024

SLaLS Members Participating in Upcoming CU Teaching Innovation Symposium

SLaLS colleagues and students (past and present) are participating in the upcoming InspirED 2024: CU teaching Innovation Symposium. Nina Doré (Educational Development Facilitator and ALDS PhD Graduate) is facilitating a panel on experiential learning Mako Hirotani is presenting in a session on the scholarship of teaching and learning ALDS and... More

Friday, April 12, 2024

Languages Take the Stage

March and April have been busy months for language students in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, as they took the stage to expand their language skills beyond the classroom. In March, students studying Korean and Japanese competed in regional and national speech contests. In April, students gathered in Carleton University's Kailash... More

Monday, April 8, 2024

2024 Lynne Young ALDS Graduate Award Recipient Announced

Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Lynne Young ALDS Graduate Award, Hyounjeong Yoo. The award was announced by long-time friend and colleague of Lynne Young, Dr. Trudy O’Brien, at the Graduate Student Symposium on Friday, April 5. Hyounjeong is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies and conducts research on the... More

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Emily Udle to Share Research at TLS Showcase and NCUR

This week, upper-year undergraduate student Emily Udle's research will be on display at Teaching and Learning Services’ (TLS) 2024 SaPP & I-CUREUS Showcase. A few days later, Emily will travel to Long Beach in California to present her research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Emily’s project, “A Systemic... More

Thursday, March 28, 2024

SLaLS Students Host Successful Networking Event

On Friday, March 22, students, staff, and faculty gathered at Mike's Place for a SLaLS networking event. The gathering, organized by the Carleton Applied and Theoretical Linguistics Society (CATL) and co-hosted with the Graduate Student Society of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS), brought the SLaLS community together once again... More

Friday, March 22, 2024

Beth MacLeod and Tamara Sorenson Duncan Receive SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Congratulations to Professors Beth MacLeod and Tamara Sorenson Duncan on receiving SSHRC Insight Development Grants in the February 2023 competition. Beth’s project “Individual variation in the perception-production link: evidence from phonetic imitation,” with a co-applicant at the University of Ottawa, explores the link between the way an... More

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Summer Course Brings Unique Opportunity to Participate in LPP Conference

With summer registration just around the corner, we wanted to share some information about an exciting graduate course that is among our offerings this year. ALDS 5407 Language Policy and Planning with Professor Jaffer Sheyholislami offers graduate students a unique opportunity to attend and participate in the Multidisciplinary Approaches in... More

Monday, March 11, 2024

3rd Annual Korean Speech Contest

Carleton’s third annual Korean Speech Contest took place Friday, 1 March, 2024 with winners advancing to the national contest held in Toronto. The competition was broken into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Fourteen students competed in the Beginner category with speeches exploring, among other things, their reasons for... More

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget Receives 2024 Teaching Achievement Award

Carleton University's annual Achievement Awards recipients have been announced, and we are pleased to share that Chloë Grace Fogarty-Bourget has been selected for a 2024 Teaching Achievement Award. The Teaching Achievement awards are administered by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and recognize outstanding teaching... More

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