It is time to bid this semester, and this year, adieu and also to take stock of some of its highlights. L’automne est une période de transition et le LIDA n’a pas fait exception à cette règle.
I think that at this point in Canadian history, most of us have some awareness of the realities of language shift. Courses in many undergraduate programs discuss the loss of indigenous languages of Canada through the linguistic and cultural repression that occurred in residential schools.
When I was growing up in downtown Toronto in the 1960s, I expect our elementary-school social studies textbooks must have said something or other about the early encounters of white European settlers with Indigenous peoples in Canada, although I don’t actually remember any words or images from the textbooks we were issued at Brown Public […]
Please find below the call for papers for the ACLA Conference 2017, to be held at Ryerson University. BILD will see you there! CALL FOR PAPERS [la version française suit] CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS ANNUAL CONFERENCE in conjunction with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences May 29-31, 2017 Ryerson University, Ontario Plenary Sessions: […]
We have been anticipating the publication of this post for several weeks now. It is our first spoken word poem and it comes to you from Jennifer Burton, at University of Regina. After completing her degree in Justice Studies, she decided to take one year out of her life to teach English as a Second […]
