School of Linguistics and Language Studies

Graham Smart and Matthew Falconer recently published an open-access chapter called “Genre, uptake, and the recontextualization of climate change science by ‘denialist’ cultural communities�...

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At the end of 2020, Julian was pleased to see that his first publication entitled, “Levelling up comprehensible input and vocabulary learning: The lexical profile of videogames” appear in the...

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This recently published study investigates the relation between children’s understanding of canonical and non-canonical sentences (presented in the spoken domain) and their general reading comp...

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Hesam Farahani successfully defended his MA thesis on Jan. 15, 2021. His thesis – titled “Is Phonological Short-Term Memory Related to Orthographic Learning?” – examined individual differ...

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We are looking for families (who live in Canada) to participate in our study about how children learn language. This study involves telling stories to go with a set of pictures. One thing we are ...

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Denise: We are very excited to announce that Josée-Sarah Bower, ASL-English Interpreter, is our newest staff interpreter! As some of you may already know, Josée has an extensive background of e...

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Undergraduate Student Jérémie Ambroise and Alumni MA student Claire Owen presented with Prof. Junker at the 52nd Algonquian Conference. From Online Dictionary to Living Online Dictionary: The I...

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Listen to a conversation between Dr. Beth MacLeod and student Anna as they discuss the how’s and why’s behind Anna’s decision to study at Carleton.

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Yes, they can! An examination of EQAO data suggests that children with special education needs who are enrolled in French immersion have higher English academic performance compared to children w...

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Drawing on the notion of biliteracy as the “the conjunction of literacy and bilingualism,” this article reports on multiple ongoing case studies of multilingual university students developing...

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