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The YorkU Graduate Symposium in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics is a celebration of graduate student work across York University's Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Graduate Program.
GLASA will be offering four cash prizes for best presentation and participation in the symposium..
Watch this space for more information about our 2026 event and please don't hesitate to reach out to us at yorkglasa@gmail.com if you have any questions.
The 2026 YorkU Graduate Symposium in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics will be held April 14th, 2026 at York University (VR Room at the department, Ross S 5th floor). Please use this form to register to attend.
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10:00 - 10:30
Check-in
10:30 - 10:40
Welcome and opening up
Session Theme: English language education in special contexts (Chair: Marianne Laplante)
10:40 - 11:00
Trauma Informed ESL Ecology: Re-centring Teacher Well-being, Equity, and Structural Responsibility in Adult ESL Classrooms
Ghenwa Nasreddine, Professor Heejin Song
11:00 - 11:20
AI-Generated Feedback and Teacher Support in High-Stakes Speaking for Refugee-Hearing Preparation
Neda Javaherian
11:20 - 11:40
Multimodal Arts-Based Pedagogies for Social Justice in ESL: Empowering Newcomer Identities
Ghenwa Nasreddine
11:40 - 11:50
Break
Session Theme: Sociophonetics (Chair: Ghenwa Nasreddine)
11:50 - 12:10
A Sociophonetic Analysis of Vowels in Grenadian Parliamentary Speech
Taylor Potter
12:10 - 12:30
‘We Settled Here, But We Also Settled For Here’: Non-Salient Sociophonetic Variation and Local Identity Across the Lifespan
Gerry Turner
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
Session Theme: Heritage languages and speakers (Chair: Yifan Wu)
13:30 - 13:50
Rising Tone Emerging: Implications for Rising Tone Merger in English-dominant Cantonese Communities
Laura Yiu
13:50 - 14:10
Effect of CLI on HL Russian grammar of early and late L2 French learners
Mariam Mbeng
14:10 - 14:30
Investigating Question Final Particle Use in Cantonese Heritage Speakers
Laura Yiu
14:30 - 14:40
Break
Session Theme: Community practices (Chair: Katie Slemp)
14:40 - 15:00
"Submit Fraps you f*cking elf lawyer" An Ongoing Digital Ethnographic Analysis of Online Speech and Meaning Making in Gaming
Andrew Ferley
15:00 - 15:20
How to Do Things with Woofs: Examining the Use of Non-Human Vocalizations as a Genre of Paralanguage in the Queer Pup Play Kink Community
Terence (TJ) McKeown
15:20 - 15:40
Analysing the Speech Styles of American Megachurch Pastors
Daniella Okon
15:40 - 15:50
Break
Session Theme: Multilinguistism (Chair: Laura Yiu) (Cancled)
Plurilingual Approaches in a Monolingual EFL Context: Exploring the Possibility in an English-Medium Instruction University in Türkiye
Elifcan ATA KIL
Beyond the French Language Services Act (1990): Barriers to access of services in francophone Temiskaming Shores
Isabelle Burguete
Break
Session Theme: Gender and sexuality in (new) media (Chair: Isabelle Burguete)
15:50 - 16:10
Labeling motherhood in hashtags on TikTok #momsoftiktok #momlife #morningroutine
Katie Slemp, Marianne Laplante, Yifan Wu
16:10 - 16:30
Media discourse on trans sex offenders: a preliminary analysis
Marianne Laplante, Katie Slemp, Yifan Wu
16:30 - 16:50
'Doll-like‘ girls and 'narrow-waisted’ men: How AI Prompts Reinforce and Challenge Hegemonic Gender Norms in China
Yifan Wu, Carla Moriarty
16:50 - 17:00
Closing up
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