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ACHAB, Karim »

Professor of linguistics, professor of French as a Second Language
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

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Tamazight (Berber, Kabyle, Tuareg): All linguistic fields relevant to Amazigh studies: syntax, morphology and lexical semantics. I have a particular interest for geopolitics of North Africa.

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English and French , Tamazight (Kabyle, Tuareg), Hungarian, Spanish

BEHIELS, Michael D. »

Michael D. Behiels

Emeritus professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1305)
Home: 613-837-9483
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E-mail, Home Telephone

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I am a political, constitutional, intellectual historian who deals with Canadian political and constitutional matters since 1945. I am a specialist in Canadian federalism, federal-provincial relations with a special emphasis on Ottawa-Quebec relations, nationalisms as expressed in Canada, francophone-anglophone relations, and the development of Canada's Francophone minority communities

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English and French

BRIEN, Christie »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

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My research investigates how acquiring a second language affects a person's processing in the first language. I have combined methods of behaviour and neuroimaging to show that bilinguals are (subconsciously) more sensitive to sentential information to more efficiently disambiguate a word's meaning.

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English and French

BROWN, Adam Oliver »

Adam Oliver Brown

Science Lecturer
Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Biology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6308)
Cell: 613-558-2326
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I am an ecologist with an expertise in science communication to the general public, the public understanding of science, the scholarship of teaching and learning Science, as well as working to develop effective teaching techniques and technologies to help students learn Biology at the undergraduate level of University. I have also been involved in the production, scripting and hosting of TV and radio shows and documentaries (CBC The Nature of Things, TVOkids Finding Stuff Out & The Prime Radicals).

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English and French

CLÉMENT, Richard »

Richard CLÉMENT

Chair and Associate Dean
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

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Office: 613-562-5359
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My research interests concern the social psychology of language and communication. Specifically, I am interested in determinants and consequences of second language acquisition and intergroup communication. Issues of competence, identity and adaptation are examined as a function of different contextual factors such as the minority/majority status of different groups.

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English and French

FENNELL, Christopher »

Christopher Fennell

Doctor/Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
School of Psychology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4445)
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My main field of research is infant language acquisition, relating to speech perception and word learning. My other research focus is bilingualism in the infancy period.

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English and French

GOBEIL, Marc »

Director of French Immersion Studies
Support staff member

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Office: 613-562-5747
Office: 613-562-5800 x 2273
Cell: 613-668-2272
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  • Intimate knowledge of French immersion at the post-secondary level.
  • Have met more than 2,500 students attempting bilingual university studies.
  • Knowledge of students' ambitions, challenges, fears and tools for success.

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English and French

GRENIER, Gilles »

Gilles GRENIER

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Full professor
Faculty of Social Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1423)
Home: 819-684-0022
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Labour market in Canada. Wages and incomes. Labour market of immigrants. Labour market according to language characteristics, age groups, education.

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English and French

JEZAK, Monika »

PhD
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3475)
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Adult biliteracy; multilingualism; language policy.

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English and French , espagnol; russe; polonais

MARTINEAU, France »

Directrice du projet Le français à la mesure d’un continent : un patrimoine en partage / Directrice du laboratoire Polyphonies / Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche de l’Université sur la langue et la migration en Amérique française
Emeritus professor
Faculty of Arts
Français

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1075)
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Ma recherche porte sur l'évolution du français, en France et au Canada, et de façon générale sur la relation entre langue et société. Je m'intéresse particulièrement à la diversité régionale, aux langues en contexte minoritaire, au discours identitaire et à l’élaboration de normes linguistiques. Pour mes recherches, j'ai élaboré de larges corpus électroniques qui retracent l’histoire du français et des communautés francophones depuis les origines du français jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

 www.continent.uottawa.ca

www.voies.uottawa.ca

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POPLACK, Shana »

Canada Research Chair in Linguistics, Director, Sociolinguistics Laboratory
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1764)
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Website Website of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory: http://www.sociolinguistics.uottawa.ca/thelab.html

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Natural speech in social context, with special emphasis on the mechanisms by which language change occurs in different contact situations in Canada and elsewhere. 

Can also be reached at 613-562-5800 (1184) - Sociolinguistics Laboratory

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English and French , Spanish/espagnol; Portuguese/portuguais

SABOURIN, Laura »

Director, Brain and Language Laboratory
Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

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I investigate how languages are organized and represented in the brain. Specifically, I look at how speech sounds, words, and sentences are processed by bilinguals and second language learners.

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English and French , Dutch

SALAH HUSSEIN ALY, Wael »

Professor of French as Second language, of linguistics
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Français

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Cell: 438-939-1066
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French second language. I'm interested in French immersion and French second language teaching at the university level and general French linguistics. 

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English and French , Arabe

SALANOVA, Andrés Pablo »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Linguistics

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1759)
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My research concentrates on the grammatical structure of the indigenous languages spoken in the lowlands of South America, in particular that of Mebengokre, spoken by approximately 10.000 people in central Brazil.

More broadly, I'm interested in Eastern Brazil and the Chaco as cultural areas, in their ethnographic, historical, archaeological and linguistic aspects.

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English and French , Espagnol/Spanish, Portugais/Portuguese, Mebengokre

SLAVKOV, Nikolay »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts
Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3882)
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I am interested in bilingualism and multilingualism from various perspectives, including linguistic, cognitive, social and pedagogical. - Shifts between active and passive bilingualism in child language acquisition - Language attrition and language recovery - Minority and heritage language acquisition and maintenance - Acquisition of Long-Distance Wh- Movement in L2 English

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English and French , Bulgarian

VALENZUELA, Elena »

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Modern Languages and Literatures

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Office: 613-562-5800 (3743)
Cell: 613 700 6286
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Associate professor of Hispanic linguistics, Dept of Modern Languages, uOttawa; Director of Entrepreneurship, Creativity, & Social Innovation Ventures at the Faculty of Arts

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English and French , Spanish

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