Member Spotlights
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July 27, 2022
Member Spotlight: Xing (Ezra) Yu
Language Sciences member, Xing (Ezra) Yu, is a Masters' Student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC.
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July 7, 2022
Introducing Turjuman: A Public Tool For Neural Arabic Machine Translation
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming lives. In particular, advances in deep learning, a subfield of AI that loosely mimics information processing in the brain, has enabled innovations across a wide range of domains. One area where rapid progress is taking place is machine translation.
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June 23, 2022
Member Spotlight: Dr. Mark Turin
Language Sciences member, Dr. Mark Turin, is an anthropologist, linguist and radio presenter. At the University of British Columbia, Mark currently serves as an Associate Professor of Anthropology.
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June 16, 2022
Member Feature: Denitza Dramkin
Language Sciences member, Denitza Dramkin, is currently pursuing her PhD in Developmental Psychology working with Dr.
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June 1, 2022
Digital Media: Providing opportunities for language and literacy learning for youth from refugee backgrounds
The world of digital media is providing new pedagogical opportunities for authentic and engaging language and digital literacy learning for culturally and linguistically diverse youth from refugee backgrounds.
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May 4, 2022
An Examination of French and English Reading Comprehension in Canadian French Immersion Programs: Q&A with Dr. Stefka H. Marinova-Todd
Parental level of education, instruction time, and amount of language practice that children receive have enhanced our understanding of how bilingual and multilingual children learn to comprehend text.
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May 3, 2022
Language Science Members Awarded 2021-22 CUES Funding
Congratulations to Language Sciences members, Dr. Jiaying Zhao, PhD Candidate Marianne Huijsmans, Dr. Christine Schreyer and Dr. John Lyon for receiving 2021-22 Community University Engagement Support (CUES) funding!
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March 31, 2022
Embracing Superdiversity: New book highlights the importance of students' cultural, linguistic and racial backgrounds
The new book, ‘Superdiversity and Teacher Education: Supporting Teachers in Working with Culturally, Linguistically, and Racially Diverse Students, Families and Communities
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March 7, 2022
LSURC: Providing unique opportunities for undergraduates through language research
For the past six years, the Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC) has been providing undergraduate students with the opportunity to explore language and communication research, and practice the skills required for presenting and speaking publicly in a formal academic