Faculty of Arts
School of Languages,
Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
Graduate Forum 2024
Friday, April 10th
Program Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Location: CHE 212
Thank you to the University of Calgary SLLLC Graduate
Forum Organizing Committee.
Thank you to our sponsors: Language Research
Centre (LRC) and School of Languages, Linguistics,
Literatures, and Cultures (SLLLC)
Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Contact us at slllcgraduateforum@[Link]
Schedule
10:00am -10:05am: Opening Remarks
10:05am -10:50am: Panel 1:Linguistics/Sociolinguistics
- Francisco Ongay González
- Cheryl Iwanchuk
- Brooklyn Sheppard
- Cesar Teló
10:50am - 11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am - 12:00pm: Panel 2: Acquisition (Theoretical & Applied)
- Charys Russell
- Luoqing Huang
- Yu Zhu
- Shan Li
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 1:35pm: Panel 3: Language Pedagogy & Learning
- Siobhan Kelly
- Kassandra Sharren
- Antonia Velazquez
1:35pm -1:45pm: Coffee Break
1:45pm - 2:25pm: Panel 4: Language Pedagogy & Learning
- Capko Koffi Xavier Ahodetor
- Jessica Ruffolo
- Francesca Zambolin
- Alexandra Gomez Ortiz
2:25pm - 2:30pm: Closing Remarks
Panel 1: Linguistics/
Sociolinguistics
Fransisco Ongay González
“Names, pronouns, and something in between: A typology
of nominals”
Cheryl Iwanchuk
“Children's Ability to Infer Meaning in Sentences”
Brooklyn Sheppard
“Exemplar theoretic modeling of the perception of phrasal
prominance”
Cesar Teló
“Voice-Based Discrimination: Impact on Employability
Evaluations of Speakers with Multiple Voice-Signaled
Stigmatized Identities”
Panel 2: Acquisition
(Theoretical & Applied)
Charys Russell
"Variability and Vocabulary: Comparing High and Low-Variability
Training with Real-Word and Non-Word Training Items”
Luoqing Huang
"Chinese Second Language Listening Proficiency
Comprehensibility and Accentedness”
Yu Zhu
“Chinese Character Recognition Proficiency as a Predictor of
Listening Comprehension Performance in Second Language
Acquisition”
Shan Li
"The Effects of Teaching Speech Rate in L2 Chinese Listening
Comprehension”
Panel 3: Language Pedagogy &
Learning
Siobhan Kelly
“Exploring Post-Covid Student Attrition in Post-Secondary
Language Programs: Identifying Factors and Proposing Actions for
Student Retention ”
Kassandra Sharren
“Additional Language Oral Interaction Strategies win an AI
Chatbot Abstract ”
Antonia Velazquez
“Perceptions of Duolingo in the Spanish Classroom”
Panel 4: Literature & Culture
Capko Koffi Xavier Ahodetor
“Investigating the Notions of Enunciation and Subjectivity in
French Classical Drama: The Case of Act II & III in Pierre Corneille's
Cid ”
Jessica Ruffolo
“Giovan Maria Cecchi's Sacre Rappresentazioni and Petrarchism”
Francesca Zambolin
“Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary: The Life of a Woman in the Italian
Civil War (1943-1945)”
Alexandra Gomez Ortiz
“Unveiling Spain’s Historic Cities: Madame d’Aulnoy’s
Revolutionary Travel Chronicle”