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Friday, November 9, 2018

Greek classes offered Winter 2019

Registration for LANG 1020 B (Modern Greek II) is now open. This course is a continuation of LANG 1010 B (Modern Greek I), however, if you have not taken 1010 but have prior knowledge of the language, you may still be able to register after taking a placement test and receiving permission from our... More

Friday, November 9, 2018

In Memoriam: Lynne Young

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

SLaLS meets prospective students at Saturday’s “Fall Open House”

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

ALDS graduate student featured on CBC

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

Thursday, October 18, 2018

SLaLS Monthly Newsletter (October)

Thursday, October 18, 2018 SLaLS Monthly Newsletter (October) Welcome   Welcome to the SLaLS electronic newsletter, a monthly newsletter from the School of Linguistics & Language Studies dedicated to keeping you up to speed on events, accomplishments, and news from the School. But this communication is not just a one-way street. We also... More

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

News from SALaDS

SALaDS (the Society of Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies) is a volunteer-run graduate student society in the School of Linguistics & Language Studies.  We offer a range of activities throughout the academic year.  Upcoming events include: Talks & Tipples November 5th at 6:00 p.m. in PA 240 Get feedback on your work, build your... More

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

2018 Giovanni Caboto Awards 

Application Deadline: 15 November, 2018 The prizes are to be awarded to students enrolled in subjects related to Italian and Italian-Canadian Studies (language, literature, culture and history) and students of related subject areas.  At Carleton University, students of Italian origin, irrespective of courses of study, can apply for these... More

Monday, October 15, 2018

ALDS PhD students and LING professor head to Iceland, await publication of book chapters

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

Trip to Sweden enriches doctoral studies experience

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

Gentil’s translanguaging plenary now on YouTube

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

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Recent PhD grad presents at international conference

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

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

ALDS graduate students and faculty to present their research at SLRF 2018 in Montreal

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

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