I'm Natasha Artemeva, graduate supervisor at the School of
Linguistics and Language Studies. In both our graduate programs,
Master's and PhD, we offer
two fields of study: applied linguistics
and discourse studies. This makes our
program unique in North America
because, in other universities, these
fields of study often are or heard
in different departments and in different faculties. 
We take a broad view of language in use
from teaching and learning
to analyzing written texts to analyzing
oral texts. This allows us
to combine both fields of study -
the areas usually covered by Applied
Linguistics and the areas usually
covered by Discourse Studies. 
Our students have an opportunity to
pursue one of the few
or mix and match courses to pursue their
own career goals.
Come to our program and you will
experience
its uniqueness.   Hi I'm Nina Doré.
I'm a PhD candidate in the program. My background is actually in fine art.
I came to the MA program with a very
different background and big curiosity
about language learning and language
teaching.
I completed the MA and I continued onto the PhD here as well
because it's fantastic to be surrounded by
people who
who have a great interest in solving
real-world problems.
And I've been able to focus my studies on ASL teaching
and learning American Sign Language - in
part because
the program the School of Linguistics and Language Studies offers
fantastic language programs which I've
been able to take. My name is Jenna
klostermann and I'm a MA student in the
discourse studies stream of the
Department. I started into the program
with a lot of
ideas and speculation about language in
power.
I was happy to develop a toolkit and
a theorized way of looking at language
in use 
at particular interactions in particular
contexts. While I've been focusing on the
work that Canadian visual artists do,
I've been
happy to be in conversation with other
classmates and colleagues who are
looking at different issues.
I hope you join us in the department
