CJAL Best Paper Award 2025 Competition Results / Prix du meilleur article de la RCLA 2025 résultats

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL) Best Paper Award.

Following a competitive selection process involving seven nominated articles, the adjudication committee has selected one winner for each language category: 

• Best French Article: Meredith Lachance, first author of « La conception d’une séquence didactique permettant le développement des habiletés prosodiques : recherche-développement » https://doi.org/10.37213/cjal.2024.33088 

• Best English Article: Rachael Lindberg, first author of “When accent does not match expectations: A dynamic perspective of L2 speaker evaluations in a French interview context.” https://doi.org/10.37213/cjal.2023.33052

We extend our sincere thanks to the members of the adjudication committee for their time and expertise: 

• William Dunn, University of Alberta 

• Carole Fleuret, University of Ottawa 

• Josée Le Bouthillier, University of New Brunswick 

• Maria-Lourdes Lira-Gonzales, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 

• Shelley Taylor, Western University

Congratulations to the award winners, and thank you to all authors who contributed to this year’s outstanding selection of papers.