The Journal Club
A monthly meeting of students and faculty members to discuss articles from a recent journal in Applied Linguistics. Each meeting, one person will lead the discussion over a chosen article. Visit here for announcements regarding the current week's chosen article, the discussion leader, and time and place of the meeting.
Click here for the Journal Club flyer (.docx)
Fall 2009 Journal Club Meetings
Friday, Oct. 16th, 1:30-2:30pm, LA 322
-Leader: Mark Johnson
-Article: Crossley, S., McCarthy, P., Louwerse, M., & McNamara, D. (2007). A linguistic analysis of simplified and authentic text. The Modern Language Journal, 91, 15-30.
Friday, Nov. 20th, 1:30-2:30 pm, LA 322
-Leader: Cui Zhang
-Article: Papathanasiou, E. (2009). An investigation of two ways of presenting vocabulary. ELT Journal, 63, 313-322.
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Come hear our own faculty members share their current projects and professional endeavors, and bring your lunch too! Our hope is to create a greater awareness of what faculty members are doing in our field and to further stimulate student interest in our field.
FALL 2009 Brown Bag Session:
"Lexical 'Patterns' in Speech and Writing" by Dr. Douglas Biber
Friday, Oct. 30th, 1:30-2:30pm, LA 322
Social Activities
Stay tuned for various social activities organized by the GSAAL! During the spring semester, we organized "Bowling for Linguists' and an end-of-semester potluck/picnic. Recently we organized a hike!
Halloween-inspired game night! Tentative: October 31. Potluck party with games and Halloween costumes! More details to come.
End of Semester Party! December 4. Potluck party and student awards. Time/location TBA.
Liason Service between Students & Faculty (Suggestion/Question Box)
The GSAAL will serve as a liason between students and faculty members. Feel free to submit questions, comments, or suggestions that you would like faculty members to address in the box located in the graduate student mail room in the Liberal Arts building. The suggestions/questions/comments will be compiled on a regular basis by the GSAAL officers and submitted to the faculty members. Contributions can be submitted anonymously.
Constructive comments include anything [reasonable] that students are hesitant to ask faculty members, suggestions for events, topics for The Journal Club, etc. We will check the box weekly, and we will address comments and suggestions promptly.