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Thursday, May 6, 2021

In memory of Dr. Janice Yalden

We note with great sadness, the passing of Dr. Janice Yalden, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton, founding Director of Carleton's Centre for Applied Language Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of... More

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Submit your graduation profile

Are you graduating with a SLaLS degree this spring? If so, we'd love to add your graduation profile to our virtual graduation. Please submit it by May 28, 2021 so we have time to add... More

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

“What wind is it?” A year in Kuzmar

Join professor Erik Anonby and family in this BBC travelogue as they spend a year experiencing life, language, and culture amongst the people of Kuzmar, a small village on Oman's north... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Former Honours Student Emma Bornheimer Presents her Thesis Work at Virtual AAAL Conference

Emma Bornheimer recently presented her undergraduate thesis work about netspeak use and autism at the American Association for Applied... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Annual grad student symposium moves online

If you're wondering what action adventure games, air traffic control, and saying no in customer service have in common, you clearly weren't at the first virtual grad student symposium held 26 March, 2021 in BrightSpace. The... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Haiku from Japanese class

Poetry, short stories, and song lyrics, it is difficult enough to write creatively in one's own language much less in a second or additional language. The following haiku were written by students in “Reading in Japanese” course... More

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Congratulations to new Winter 2021 graduates

While many of us were hibernating, others were completing their graduate degrees in ALDS! Congratulations to Hesam Farahani, Megan Ouellette and Fazal Ahmad on completing their MA degrees and to Nina Dore on completing her... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Alisa Zavialova, PhD (ALDS)/20

Alisa Zavialova holds both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies from Carleton University. Her research interests centre around instructional pragmatics and formulaic language. As a second language... More

Monday, March 29, 2021

Christopher Smith, PhD (ALDS)/20

After Renaissance Studies in OCADU's Florence (Italy) program, followed by 18 years of secondary and university EFL instruction in Korea, I returned to Canada and joined SLaLS in 2015. I received a Master's degree from UNE (2014), but... More

Friday, March 26, 2021

Genre and EFL Teacher Training: Lynne Young Award presented

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... More

Saturday, March 20, 2021

2021 Virtual Graduate Student Symposium

SALaDS first virtual edition of the graduate student symposium will take place on Friday, March 26, 2021, 3:00-5:00 PM EST. Schedule: 3:05-3:15: Opening Remarks (David Wood) 3:15-3:30: Presentation of the Lynne Young Award (Trudy... More

Friday, March 19, 2021

Breaking Barriers by Teaching In (and About) Kurdish

Throughout this one hundred- and thirty-year (and counting) pursuit of sovereignty, instituting linguistic rights has been considered as a crucial step towards their legitimacy and... More

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