Past Event

The graduate students’ Society for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (SALaDS) is thrilled to invite you to the 19th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, Contemporary Issues in Language Studies.

The symposium brings together and showcases graduate student and upper-year undergraduate student research together with faculty and fellow students from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS) and related disciplines.

Program

• Opening address with the SALaDS Organizing Committee and Michael Rodgers, Director of the School of Linguistics and Language Studies
• Lynne Young Award announcement with Trudy O’Brien
• Keynote featuring Dr. Marie-Odile Junker
• Interactive poster session showcasing student research

Posters

• Andrea Banicki (PhD ALDS): The Legal Status of a Life: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Amicus Briefs in a Recent U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Rights
• Gaby Gao (MA ALDS): A Multimodal Perspective on the Research Participant Recruitment Poster: An ESP Genre Investigation
• Ghazaleh Ghamati Moghaddam and Nahla Salmani (MA ALDS): Unveiling the Revolutionary Impact of Immersive Virtual Reality on Language Education
• Elif Once-Buyukerol (PhD ALDS): Phrasal Verb Acquisition Through Technology-Mediated Instruction, Exercise Procedures and Exercise Formats: Building Upon the Controversial Literature
• Dima Zaid-Kilani (PhD ALDS): Resilience and Persistence: Unveiling the Journey of Arabic-Speaking Female Muslim Teachers in Adult ESL Education