In Progress: Doctorate of Philosophy

Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta

Supervisors: Dr. Johanne Paradis

Funding: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) and University of Alberta President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction

 

2010: Masters of Science

Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta

Supervisors: Dr. Johanne Paradis and Dr. Anne-Michelle Tessier

Thesis: Emerging L2 Consonant Systems and Performance on Nonword Repetition Tasks

Funding: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Master’s Scholarships (SSHRC), University of Alberta Walter H Johns Graduate Fellowship, and  University of Alberta Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship

 

2009: Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute

University of California Berkeley

 

2006: Bachelor of Arts with Honors

Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta

Supervisor: Dr. Johanne Paradis

Thesis: ESL Children’s Acquisition of –s and –s

Education:

Research Projects:

Intercultural Early Learning Program

The Edmonton Public School Boards in partnership with the Multicultural Health Brokers have developed and Intercultural Early Learning Program designed to assist students in learning English while maintaining their first language.  My research is a longitudinal study which tracks the oral language development of children in this program and compares their development with children who attend monolingual English Early Learning Programs.  This project is in the early stages of data collection. Collaborators/Supervisors:  Johanne Paradis and Anna Kirova.

 

DELS: Dutch-English Longitudinal Study

This longitudinal study follows the L1 maintenance and L2 acquisition of two Dutch-English bilingual children who at the time of data collection were living in Edmonton.  At present, we are in the midst of transcribing the wealth of data we collected from these children over a three year period. Collaborators: Elma Blom and Johanne Paradis.

 

Child Phonology

The research I completed during my Master’s Program had a strong focus on the acquisition of English phonology by child second language learners.  The results of this work can be found in my thesis (above) and in some of the files linked through the teaching, presentations, and publications tabs above. Collaborators/Supervisors:  Anne-Michelle Tessier and Johanne Paradis.

Tamara Sorenson Duncan

PhD Program

Department of Linguistics

University of Alberta