Over the past two weeks, I found myself in four big airports. Though I did not have a chance to actually visit the cities in which these airports are located (I was merely there to catch connecting flights), I did have the chance to observe how people communicate when they find themselves in settings where […]
The editors of scholarly journals have one hell of a hard row to hoe. I say this in sympathy, never having had the courage to take on the job myself. Note that “job” in this context carries no expectation of remuneration. Editors spend hours, days and years reading manuscripts, sending them out to equally-unpaid reviewers […]
Casey Catherine Heather Jacqueline Jennifer Kathleen Lauren Melissa Michaela Patricia Stephen Sumanthra Yecid Casey Casey Burkholder became invested in the notion of citizenship and belonging from an early age, growing up in Canada’s North. Because her family moved frequently (from Edmonton to Red Deer to St. Albert to Fort Smith to Calgary to Winnipeg), […]
This week’s blog post comes from Erin Reid, a Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University. Erin is generally curious by nature about most things, but has been fascinated by languages and language learning since she began studying French in a Calgary elementary school in the 1980s.
You may have heard that the BILD Research Community has a new and exciting initiative! It’s called J-BILD (Journal of Belonging, Identity, Language, and Diversity). We are still accepting submissions for our July 31 deadline (see the Call for Papers) and aim to publish the inaugural issue in November 2017. We thought it would be […]
