Earlier this month, ALDS professor Jaffer Sheyholislami, in collaboration with colleagues from Germany and Sweden, offered a week long Kurdish language course, the Kurdish Language Autumn School, at the University of Bamberg in Germany.
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Kurdish Language Autumn School
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PhD candidate Saira Fitzgerald successfully defends
Congratulations to PhD candidate Saira Fitzgerald on the recent successful defence of her doctoral dissertation.
Fitzgerald, whose thesis “Blackboard/Whiteboard: The discursive construction of the International Baccalaureate in Canada” explores how the International Baccalaureate program is thought about and talked about in Canada, was also nominated for a University Medal.
Committee Members:
- Dr. Dwayne Winseck, Chair
- Dr. Tony McEnery, External Examiner
- Dr. Timothy Pychyl, Internal Examiner
- Dr. Guillaume Gentil, Committee Member
- Dr. Lynne Young, Committee Member
- Dr. Graham Smart, Thesis Supervisor
(L – R) Lynne Young, Graham Smart, Saira Fitzgerald, Guillaume Gentil
(L – R) Dwayne Winseck, Lynne Young, Graham Smart, Saira Fitzgerald, Guillaume Gentil, Timothy Pychyl
Tony McEnery
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Can the Japanese language contribute to world peace?
More than 150 people turned out to hear linguist and author Dr. Takehiro Kanaya speak about interconnectedness of language and culture in an event at Carleton University co-hosted by the School of Linguistics & Language Studies and the Embassy of Japan.
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Carleton welcomes Professor Surkhi
Carleton University and the Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) are pleased to welcome Iranian Kurd scholar Rahim Surkhi as part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network. Professor Surkhi is the second scholar that we have hosted since becoming part of the network in 2014 and he will be with us for a year. He is joining Carleton’s School of Linguistics and Language
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An evening of paper-cutting
Carleton was pleased to welcome dynamic and captivating Kami-Kiri artist Mr. Hayashiya Imamaru to Richcraft Hall last night for an evening of freehand paper-cutting co-sponsored by the School of Linguistics & Language Studies and the Embassy of Japan.
After greetings from Embassy Second Secretary Mr. Yuki Ochiai, School Director Dr. David Wood, and Japanese instructor Elizabeth Sowka, Mr. Hayashiya took to the stage.
Moving delicately side to side as if in some sort of martial arts display, Mr. Hayashiya and his bouncing scissors cut out shapes of lions and dragons and couples under the cherry blossoms in response to requests from the audience. Once completed “…and finish!” he would place the silhouettes onto the overhead projector for everyone to see.
In addition to requests from the crowd, Mr. Hayashiya invited audience members up onto the stage to cut out their own shapes, like hearts or Mount Fuji with clouds floating overhead. He also snipped out people’s profiles and pictures of them hard at work, like the scholar Dr. Wood, seen below.
It was a charming evening that wrapped up with Mr. Hayashiya answering audience questions in Japanese and English about both the craft of freehand paper cutting and about how he had discovered his intricate and lifelong passion.
Photos by: Mami Sasaki, Japanese Instructor (Carleton University)
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Giovanni Caboto Award
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.
Deadline: 30 November, 2017
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PhD Research Focuses on Women Drivers in Saudi Arabia
On Sept. 26, 2017, Carleton University doctoral candidate Lama Altoaimy uploaded her revised dissertation. Her analysis of how Twitter users in Saudi Arabia were debating the country’s ban on women driving had been successfully defended four days earlier and she was relieved and happy at the conclusion of her PhD program.
Minutes later, relief turned to disbelief—and then to jubilation. In an extraordinary coincidence of timing, the ban was finally lifted.
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Fitzgerald wins University Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Work
Former PhD student and now alumna, Saira Fitzgerald, was awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work at the Doctoral Level at the Fall Convocation ceremony on Nov. 18.
Fitzgerald said that the medal presentation left her with an “entire feeling of disbelief and a sense of I must be dreaming. This can’t be real.”
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Learn Kurdish this winter
“I love teaching and I’m excited to engage with young energetic students.”
– Dr. Rahim Qader Surkhi
This winter, we are excited to welcome Dr. Surkhi to our School as part of the Scholars at Risk Network. He will be teaching our credit course in Sorani Kurdish.
Sorani Kurdish is a member of the Indo-Iranian language family and is spoken by about 7 million people living predominantly in Iran and Iraq. It is also the primary language of media, public education, and public institutions in the Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq. There are about 12,000 Kurds living in Canada, the majority of whom are speakers of Sorani Kurdish.
The course meets weekly on Mondays & Wednesdays (6:00-8:00 p.m.). If you are planning to register, you can find the course LANG 1010 C by searching under the heading “Language Studies” on Carleton Central.
Click here to learn more or email us at: kurdish@carleton.ca
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Learn Hungarian this Winter
If you already know a little Hungarian but you want to enhance your proficiency, join us this winter for the second part of the beginner Hungarian course
(LANG 1020B). In it, you will learn to communicate in Hungarian about everyday topics using all 4 skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. You will also explore Hungary’s rich cultural heritage and unique role in Central Europe.
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Learn Kiswahili this winter
Haba na haba hujaza kibaba.
Swahili proverb: Little by little fills the container.
If words are drops of water, you can begin filling your Kiswahili container this winter.
This credit course is open to Carleton students and to members of the public.
Kiswahili is one of a number of Bantu languages spoken in areas of East and Central Africa. The language is a national or official language of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo, and an official working language of the African Union.
While Kiswahili is African in origin, it has been influenced over centuries by contact with Arabic, Persian, German, Portuguese, English, and French.
Five to ten million people speak Kiswahili as their native language but many more – as many as 100 million – people speak it as a language of daily life.
Email us to learn more at: kiswahili@carleton.ca
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PowerPoint slides from ALDS information session
Learn more about the ALDS program: what it is, what you will learn, types of career paths you can follow, and how to apply.
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Recent PhD grad publishes
Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Saira Fitzgerald, Adjunct Research Professor Dr. Lynne Young and third co-author Dr. Michael Fitzgerald on the publication of “The Power of Language” (2nd Edition) by Equinox Publishing.
Saira has also published an article, “Perceptions of the International Baccalaureate (IB) in Canadian Universities” in the most recent Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
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Discourse analysis raises questions about science behind claims
Globe & Mail opinion piece cites “stem cell” research by Prof. Timothy Caufield, 2016 Carleton grad Dr. Christen Rachul, and Dr. Ivona Percec.
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Winners of CASDW research award
Dr. Natasha Artemeva, Dr. Janna Fox, and past ALDS grad John Haggerty (MA/11) are recipients of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW) Annual Research Award 2017 for their book chapter entitled “Mitigating risk: The impact of a diagnostic assessment procedure on the first-year experience in engineering.”
According to the selection committee:
“For those who teach in an engineering program, this work is helpful in understanding how to fix problematic retention rates—the article may hence really change the course of university for these students in Canada. But this portion of the larger study also provides solid support for advances in writing studies beyond the engineering sector in which it was conducted: it does so by emphasizing the efficacy of a disciplinary, rather than generic assessment, and embedding it within the courses.”
Haggerty is currently a doctoral candidate in Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia.
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Junker featured in Le Droit
After being featured as “Personalité de la Semaine” this past May, Professor Marie-Odile Junker appears again in Le Droit, this time as their “Coup de Coeur” (an idiomatic expression in French, meaning “to have a crush on someone”) for her continued work with Indigenous languages.
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Lecture on VTM approach to phonetic correction offered by Dept. of French
Join the Department of French for an afternoon lecture by Assistant de France, M. Valentin Gréselle, on the Verbo-Tonal Method (VTM). Created in the 1960s by Petar Guberina, VTM is a method for phonetic correction that focuses on the learners’ ear and tries to perfect their discrimination of the different sounds of the language under study. Placing an emphasis on intonation, rhythm and body, VTM allows both learners and language teachers for a more active learning of the sounds and pronunciation of a foreign language. How would students of Mandarin, benefit from this? Students of German, Italian?
Visit the Au Son du Fle to learn more about this approach.
The talk will be given in French with questions and discussion in English and French.
- Location: PA 129
- Date/Time: 2 February (2:00 – 4:00 p.m.)
Light refreshments and cookies will be served.
Contact Chantal Dion for more information.
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A journey of learning & experiencing
PhD candidate Chloe Fogarty-Bourget recently returned from three months at the Auckland University of Technology’s Multimodal Research Centre in New Zealand.
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Carleton competes at 2020 National Japanese Speech Contest (online)
Congratulations to the three Carleton students who competed in last Sunday’s National Japanese Speech Contest: Mano Hooper and Zehan Zhou (4th year Japanese) and Wentian Yao (1st year Japanese). Mano won first prize in the “Open” category and received a scholarship from the Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research.
Thanks to our Organizing Committee members Yoriko Aizu (National) and Mami Sasaki (Regional) as well as all members of our Japanese language teaching team for their contributions and for inspiring students to participate!
Now in its 31st year, this annual contest brings together regional winners from across the country to compete at a national level. We hosted the event last year, however this year, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision was made in early March to move the competition online. Thanks to extraordinary cooperation among universities and organizations in Canada’s seven participating regions, organizers were able to conduct the event virtually. A recording of a livestream from the event can be viewed here.
Event sponsors include:
- Japan Communications Inc.
- Japan Foundation
- Mitsui Canada Foundation
- Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research
- ShowFlex International Inc.
- Toronto Shokokai
- Toyota Canada Inc.
- University of Toronto (East Asian Studies)
- Yamaha Canada Music Ltd.
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PhD student receives inaugural Lynne Young Graduate Award
Congratulations to PhD candidate Codie Fortin Lalonde, on being awarded the inaugural Lynne Young Graduate Award.
The award recognizes academic excellence of a graduate student in the School’s Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies program. It was established in 2019 in memory of longtime faculty member Dr. Lynne Young and is valued at $1000.
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