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Jade LaFointaine, MA Student in DISE, Wins ACLA/CAAL Indigneous Graduate Student Award

Published: 16 May 2022

Jade LaFontaine, Master's student in Second Language Education and lecturer at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ, is the winner of the prestigious Indigenous Graduate Student Award of the 2022 Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (CAAL/ACLA) conference. This important award recognizes excellence in graduate student research submitted to the 2022 CAAL/ACLA conference.

Her presentation titled "Looking Forward: Tools Designed Specifically for Indigenous Language Instruction" discussed results of her research project in collaboration with the Kanien'kehá:ka community. It highlighted how teachers feel about online tools and what they would like to see from digital tools for their Indigenous language instruction in the future.

"This award represents the dedication I have had since my undergrad to committing my time and effort wherever I can to ensure the vitality of our ancestral languages. Receiving it is an amazing opportunity and reassures me that I am doing good work for the field of language revitalization," said Jade.

Jade LaFointaine's research is being co-supervised by Drs. Angelica Galante and Mela Sarkar.

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