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Friday, February 24, 2023
The Service Excellence Awards celebration was held on Thursday, Feb. 23 in Fenn Lounge. This is a special event held annually at Carleton to award service excellence exhibited by staff. This year SLaLS had two nominations, Joan Grant, our beloved graduate administrator and Mastoor Al-Kaboody, an ALDS PhD student who is involved in many... More
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Dr. Rebekah Ingram, who received her PhD from the department in 2020 with a dissertation on the topic of Kanyen'kéha (Mohawk) place names, has been named English language Editor of Onomastica Canadiana, the journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names. The journal will be open to new submissions in September and... More
Monday, October 25, 2021
SLaLS faculty member Dr.Rachelle Vessey gave an invited talk on language ideology and corpus linguistics in the series "Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research" (University of Murcia, Spain). She also presented new research about Canadian Chief Medical Officer's public health advice at the "Language of COVID-19 Conference" (University... More
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Caitlin Bergin, a PhD candidate in Linguistics, Language Documentation, and Revitalization, was featured in the Toronto news last month! Bergin is currently working on a sociolinguistic research project which seeks to answer the question “how do Torontonians pronounce ‘Toronto’?” by utilizing a survey designed to i) determine which... More
Friday, March 26, 2021
Congratulations to Osama Elbeyaly, this year’s winner of the Lynne Young ALDS Graduate Award. “I have always been interested in language, how people use it to express themselves in various social situations, and how it can be used to affect people’s decisions/beliefs, etc... My interest in Applied Linguistics and Discourse studies was... More
Friday, November 13, 2020
Director's Message Fall semester is the time for new beginnings and for giving thanks. This year we are all delighted to say CONGRATULATIONS to all our fall 2020 graduates. To all of you, we wish a great life ahead, enriched by your time with us at SLALS. Our time with you has been fulfilling... More
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
ALDS graduate student Angela Garcia is investigating how best to test and ensure pilots' listening comprehension. Building on her experience with the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency, she hopes her PhD research "...will contribute to more appropriate and effective pilot training and testing and, consequently, to safer skies for not only the crew,... More
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Congratulations to all Spring 2020 graduates in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, as well as Modern Language Minors, and new Certificate holders in Teaching English as a Second Language and American Sign Language. Congratulations videos Meet the Graduates PhD Muftah Mohamed MA Fatima Ady Hiba Fazl Ullah Brandon Hoto... 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
Thursday, May 10, 2018
ALDS PhD candidates Lina AlHassan and Olga Makinina have successfully defended their theses and are set to graduate. Lina AlHassan’s thesis, An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Formulaic Sequences in Upgrading EAP Students’ Academic Writing Skills, was defended April 20th, while Olga Makinina’s thesis, Factors Impacting Collocation... More
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Saira Fitzgerald, Adjunct Research Professor Dr. Lynne Young and third co-author Dr. Michael Fitzgerald on the publication of "The Power of Language" (2nd Edition) by Equinox Publishing. Saira has also published an article, "Perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian Universities" in the... More
Friday, May 20, 2016
Congratulations to ALDS doctoral candidate Saira Fitzgerald on receiving a Graduate Student Open Access Award (2015-2016) on the basis of her paper "Perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Ontario Universities”. The paper, written initially in the context of her Doctoral Core Seminar class, was later published in the Canadian... More
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