All of us here at the BILD blog and J-BILD journal wish you a safe and happy summer of 2021! We will resume regular blog posting in September. The June issue of the journal—it’s open-access online—is receiving the finishing touches even now and will be up for you to enjoy very soon. As the COVID-19 […]
This semester has been particularly hectic for me. I’ve been juggling two jobs while also being a full-time PhD student. I teach an undergraduate course on second language learning at McGill University, where I work with a group of 76 students, most of whom are perfectly bilingual (or multilingual!) and come from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds. […]
Alison Angelica April Béatrice Ben Caroline D. Caroline R. Emmanouela Florence John Kate Mama Mehdi Mela Paul Rhonda Sunny Susan Alison Alison Crump completed her PhD in Educational Studies in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University in 2014. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language policy, multilingualism, identity theory, critical race […]
This week’s guest bloggers are Martyna Kozlowska and Jaime Demperio. Martyna Kozlowska is an English language instructor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She obtained a PhD in linguistics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in the domain of generative approaches to L2 acquisition. She teaches primarily grammar, syntax, and critical reading, though her […]
This blog post includes a linked audio file. Just click on the link below if you would like to hear the post read aloud. Scroll down to read the text. The wall was the wall of the waiting room in the Winnipeg CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) station, sometime in the 1890s, perhaps. Here is the […]
