General
- University Policies
- Course Approval Form (updated July 2020)
(this form is used for Independent Studies, Tutorials, Honours Essays, Research Essays, and Theses)
While the university is working online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students will need to:
- Complete the fillable form in the link above (your signature is optional)
- Return the completed form by email:
- Only forms received from a Carleton email account will be processed
- Include the form as a separate attachment
- Include your name, student number, and the course in your message
- For ALDS and LING requests, also include the name of the supervisor
- Send to slals@carleton.ca
- Information packet for LING & ALDS undergraduate students
ALDS-Specific
- ALDS 4908 – Honours Project Description (updated March 2013)
- ALDS 4908 – Honours Project Contract PDF/DOC (updated March 2013)
- ALDS 4908 – Honours Project Template PDF/DOC (updated March 2013)
- Template for MA Thesis/Research Essay proposals (updated October 2017)
- Doctoral Student Progress Report—ALDS Supplement (updated February 2019)
- Praxis Approval Form (updated February 2019)
- How to create a table of contents in MS Word and how to use MS Word headings to create a PDF with bookmarks (updated December 2013)
ESL Requirements (ESLR)/Testing
- ESLR Exceptional Extension Request Form
- ESL Requirements (new Undergraduate applicants)
- ESL Requirements (Undergraduate calendar, Section 4)
- ESL Requirements (new graduate applicants)
- ESL Requirements (Graduate calendar, Section 3.6)
- CAEL
- IELTS
- TOEFL
LING-Specific
- LING 4604 – Practicum in Speech Language Pathology (updated June 2019)
- Linguistics Defence Report (updated January, 2022)
Modern Language-Specific
- Language Background Questionnaire and placement test information
- New Language Contract Instructor Guide
Forms for Certificate in the Teaching of English as a Second Language (CTESL)
- Post Degree Application Form (updated Fall 2013)
- Concurrent Application Form (updated Fall 2013)
- Statement of Application (updated Fall 2013)
SLaLS Research Ethics Sub-committee Board
- Course Based Application Form for instructors who intend to include student research projects in their undergraduate and graduate courses and for supervisors of Master’s Research Essays (REs) that include small-scale pilot studies involving human participants (updated December 2016)
- Course Based Research Approval Form for instructors submitting Course Based Application Form for a course based or Research Essay projects. The top part of the form should be completed by the instructor, and the form should be submitted to the SLaLS Research Ethics Sub-committee Board (RESB) along with the Course Based Application Form.
- Templates and completion instructions for ethics materials for student course-based and RE research projects (updated December 2016)
- Carleton’s Research Ethics Board has prepared a series of online presentations that instructors can use in their classes. These are especially useful if you are having your students complete research projects with human participants – with both participants from within the course and those outside the course (for which a course-based protocol must be completed).
Support Services
- Language Learning Resource Centre (SP 337)
- Writing Services at the Centre for Student Academic Support (CSAS)
- Student Academic Success Centre (CSAS)
- Academic Advising (AAC)
- Registrar’s Office (Undergraduate)
- Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs Office
- International Student Services Office (ISSO)
Professional Associations & Societies (Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies)
- American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
- American Educational Research Association (AERA)
- Association internationale de linguistique appliquée/International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
- Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
- Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW)
- Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning (Inkshed)
- Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education
- Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing
- International Language Testing Association
- International Society for Language Studies (ISLS)
- International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA)
- National Council of Educational Measurement (NCME)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (NASFLA)
- Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
- TESL Canada
- TESL Ontario
- TESOL