News - School of Linguistics and Language Studies

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

New graduate Linguistics programs launched

After years in development, the School has finally received the go-ahead to launch a full suite of graduate programs in Linguistics. Following on the heels of expanded undergraduate offerings including a... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

MOU opens up opportunities for Carleton students…in Korea

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed and action plan developed to encourage Carleton University students visit and experience Korea. Under the agreement,... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Saira Fitzgerald begins postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University

Dr. Saira Fitzgerald (PhD/17) is set to begin a 2-year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in January 2020 at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Carleton becomes 4th site in Canada for Japanese proficiency testing

On December 1, 2019, the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) was held for the first time at Carleton University, a collaboration between SLaLS and the Scheduling and... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Graduating SLaLS student wins Chancellor’s Medal

Congratulations to Mercedes Veselka on winning this year's prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for outstanding academic achievement by an undergraduate. Mercedes crossed the stage at the... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Advocating for accessibility: ALDS student wins award

“Hi, my name is Rebecca, and I am wearing a tiara so I think I might be a fairy princess. You might be a fairy princess too. That’s fine, you be you, and that’s really the theme here.... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Japanese group mourns loss of 3rd year student

The Japanese group is mourning the passing of third-year student, Phil Boland, who died on November 18 of a pre-existing cardiac condition. Phil was majoring in Bioinformatics, but we witnessed his passionate engagement with... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

As print becomes digital

Dr. Graham Smart and recent PhD graduate Dr. Matthew Falconer published a book chapter in Science Communication on the Internet: Old genres meet new genres due out December, 2019. The chapter, “The Representation of Science... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Dimitriu and the power of storytelling

Spanish Instructor Ioana Dimitriu participated in the International Colloquium on Autofiction, which took place at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú from November 4th to 6th, 2019, with a paper titled “La literatura y la... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Ideology, identity, and linguistic rights: a sabbatical on the move

While on sabbatical Jaffer Sheyholislami has been busy travelling and presenting at conferences among other things. In September, Jaffer presented at the 4th International... More

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Language beyond vocabulary…and fiddler crabs

In October, Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale travelled to Providence, RI to give a 90 minute invited talk titled "Making Meaning in Disciplinary Writing: Language Beyond Vocabulary" with colleagues... More

Friday, November 22, 2019

Slides from MA (ALDS) Program Info Session

These slides provide an overview of the Masters program in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies. They were used in the 20 November, 2020 information... More

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