Member Spotlights
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November 19, 2025UBCO Spotlight: Q&A with Dr. Monica Good
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…
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November 10, 2025Sustaining heritage languages and multilingualism – A conversation about the relaunched Cantonese program at Mon Keang School
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…
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October 14, 2025Q&A with Dr. Elena Nicoladis on her study: Do gestures and props help communication with older adults about prescription medicine?
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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September 10, 2025Interim Co-Director Dr. Joanna Cannon on Language Sciences -- a short Q&A!
UBC Language Sciences Institute (LangSci) recently welcomed Professor Joanna E. Cannon, also Coordinator of the Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing concentration in the Special Education graduate program at UBC, as interim Co-Director while Dr. Guofang Li is on leave. She will oversee LangSci…
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June 11, 2025Q&A with Dr. Xin Sun on exploring infant & toddler minds (lexico-semantic representations)
LangSci recently sat down with our hardworking Postdoctoral Fellow Representative, Dr. Xin Sun (Psychology), whose contributions have helped bring to life multiple events for our graduate and postdoctoral members. Xin has played a central role in developing the themes and planning our annual…
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June 10, 2025Q&A with Vered Shwartz – Lost in Automatic Translation
How do language technologies like ChatGPT, Siri, and Google Translate shape our everyday lives—and what do they miss? In this engaging book, LangSci member Dr. Vered Shwartz (Assistant Professor, UBC Computer Science) explores the hidden costs and surprising consequences of relying on AI to…
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April 2, 2025
LSURC 25' - Best Oral Presentation Q&A
As LSURC 25' came to a successful close, we spoke to Hope Trischuk, who won the best oral presentation award.
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April 2, 2025
LSURC 25' - 2nd Place in Poster Presentation Q&A
As LSURC 25' came to a successful close, we spoke to Maddy Walter and Sabrina Luk on their project that won 2nd Place in Poster Presentation.
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April 1, 2025
LSURC 25' - Best Poster Presentation Q&A
As LSURC 25' came to a successful close, we spoke to Victor Wong, Dayeon Choi, and Ragul Loganathan on their project that won Best Poster Presentation.
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February 19, 2025On First and Last Words -- a conversation with author Michael Erard
When linguist and author Michael Erard stumbled upon some yellowing bones in the puckerbrush on his berry-picking excursion one day in 2022, it took him a moment to recognize and reconcile with the sight of death. Several weeks later, authorities divulged the identity of the dead person -- a…