Roundtable: Job hunting

Rachael Lindberg recently received her PhD in Applied Linguistics (March 2024) from the Education Department at Concordia University. She is currently a lecturer at Concordia in the MA Applied Linguistics and B.Ed TESL programs. Over the past two years, she has gained experience job hunting, and applying and interviewing for tenure-track assistant professor positions in Canada, mainly in Québec. She is happy to provide her insights on job hunting in academia and answer any questions you may have! 

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Facilitation: Mainly in English

Roundtable: Job hunting

Susan Ballinger is an Associate Professor in Second Language Education in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Since starting her position in 2015, she has served on four hiring and advisory committees resulting in six successful hires for multiple programs. She would be happy to discuss the hiring process and to answer questions about applying and interviewing from the institution’s perspective.

 

Facilitation: English and French 

Roundtable: Research Ethics

Monica Toca has a bachelor’s degree in business management. She has been working in the Ethics Office of Research at Concordia University since 2010, and has been a manager of the unit since 2015. 

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Facilitation: English and French

Roundtable: Research Ethics 
Dr Philippa Bell’s individual and collaborative research projects have been funded by SSHRC and the FRQSC as part of general and specific programmes. She also has experience working on government-funded projects whose ethics approval occurs through the university. Her student supervisions in different second language classrooms in Quebec and other Canadian provinces (immersion, classe d’accueil, francisation, intensive English, etc.), as well as in different teacher education classrooms, has also provided her with a variety of experiences in terms of research ethics across Canada.   

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Facilitation: English and French

Roundtable: Community outreach

Gabriel Michaud is an assistant professor specializing in the acquisition of French as a second language in the Department of Didactics at the Université de Montréal. He is particularly interested in language learning engagement and the integration of explicit teaching with task-based language teaching (TBLT). His research has also focused on the mediating effects of individual differences such as language ability and working memory, on collaborative writing and on corrective feedback. He is the recipient of the 2020 Larry Vandergrift Award from the Canadian Modern Language Review. 

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Facilitation: English and French

Roundtable: Community outreach

Claude Quevillon Lacasse is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. She is interested in the development of bi-/plurilingual competencies, meta-/crosslinguistic awareness, crosslinguistic pedagogy, grammar teaching and writing instruction, particularly through children's literature, and teacher training. She regularly gives workshops on her research interests, is the current president of the Association québécoise pour l'enseignement du français langue seconde (AQEFLS) and has participated in several professional development projects with language teachers.

 

Facilitation: English and French 

Roundtable: Publishing
Masatoshi Sato (PhD: McGill University) is a Professor at Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile. His research agenda is to conduct theoretical and applied research in order to facilitate the dialogue between practitioners and researchers. His research interests include instructed second language acquisition, peer interaction, metacognition, corrective feedback, learner psychology, teacher psychology, race and accents, and the research-practice relationship. In addition to his publications in international journals, he has co-edited volumes from John Benjamins (2016: Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning), Routledge (2017: The Routledge Handbook of ISLA; 2019: Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy), Language Teaching Research (2021: Learner Psychology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition), and The Modern Language Journal (2022: The Research-Practice Relationship). He is the recipient of the 2014 ACTFL/MLJ Paul Pimsleur Award. He is currently the Editor of Language Awareness and an executive member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Taylor & Francis.

 

Facilitation: English 

Roundtable: Publishing

Eva Kartchava is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Carleton University's School of Linguistics and Language Studies. Her research interests include (instructed) second language acquisition, Form-Focused Instruction, corrective feedback, individual differences, task-based language learning and teaching, as well as teacher cognition and education. Kartchava’s research has been published in various journals and a monograph, entitled Noticing Oral Corrective Feedback in the Second-Language Classroom: Evidence and Classroom Applications (2019, Lexington Books). She has also co-edited (with Dr. Hossein Nassaji) two volumes: Corrective Feedback in Second Language Teaching and Learning: Research, Theory, Applications, Implications (2017, Routledge) and The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Language Learning and Teaching (2021, Cambridge University Press). Her forthcoming books are Language assessment and language pedagogy (Bloomsbury, with Hossein Nassaji) and Corrective Feedback Research in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Guide (Routledge, with Hossein Nassaji). Since 2019, Dr. Kartchava has served as Co-editor (with Dr. Michael Rodgers) of the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics. She is currently Co-chair of the Carleton University Research Ethics Board. 

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Facilitation: Mainly in English