Language touches every area of our lives. Language sciences explores how.
The UBC Language Sciences Institute aims to shape the future of this interdisciplinary field and advance our understanding of how language shapes our individual and collective human experience.
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Dr. Monica Good is an Associate Professor of Teaching in Global Studies, Indigenous Knowledges, Languages and World Literatures, Spanish in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. LangSci caught up with Dr. Good to learn more about her work on language revitalization and the…
Class photo in the traditional no-smile manner of Chinese schools. Photo credit: Mon Keang SchoolThis year, the UBC Cantonese Program joyfully celebrates its 10th anniversary. As the only accredited Cantonese program in Canada, UBC Cantonese is renowned not only for teaching the language but also…
Dr. Elena Nicoladis is the Department Head of the UBC Okanagan Department of Psychology. Her research interests include bilingual language learning, gesture use, cross-linguistic and/or cross-cultural similarities and differences in language learning and processing, thinking for speaking, and the…
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