Member Spotlights
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March 5, 2023LSURC 2023: Connecting undergrads from all backgrounds through language research
Students have countless opportunities available to explore language and communication throughout their undergraduate careers, though gaining valuable research experience in those fields is an opportunity many undergraduate students feel isn’t readily available to them. Fortunately, the Language…
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March 2, 2023UBC scholar, Ife Adebara, helping AI overcome its language barrier
People around the world have been impressed with ChatGPT, a new chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses natural language processing (NLP) to seemingly answer any question. It works much better than similar technologies that came before it—as long as you prompt it in English. Ife…
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February 3, 2023Member Spotlight: Dr. Sonam Chusang
Dr. Sonam Chusang is an Adjunct Professor in the Asian Studies department at the University of British Columbia where he has been teaching Tibetan to students of heritage and non-heritage backgrounds for the past 15 years. He also taught Tibetan at the University of Virginia in 2007. What…
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February 3, 2023Language Creation in Hollywood with Dr. Christine Schreyer
Within the book titled, 'Communicating Linguistics, Language, Community and Public Engagement,' Dr. Christine Schreyer, Associate Professor of Athropology at UBC's Okanagan campus, describes her role as a language creator for two Hollywood films – Man of Steel (2013) and Alpha (2018) in…
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January 6, 2023Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in Language Acquisition - Q&A with Dr. James Stratton
If you’re looking to learn a new language, you might want to start by taking a deep dive into historical linguistics. In the study, ‘Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning: The Role of Historical Linguistics in the Second Language Classroom’, Dr. James Stratton, Assistant Professor in…
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December 5, 2022Member Spotlight: Dr. Dallas Hunt
Dr. Dallas Hunt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at UBC. He is a Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada, and has had creative and critical work published in the Malahat Review, Arc Poetry, …
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December 5, 2022The Francophone Community as Third Space and its Importance for Immigrant Integration in Metro Vancouver
Sense of community is essential for the integration of immigrants into a new culture or society. For French-speaking immigrants in Canada, Francophone minority communities can act as a unique space for connection, communication, and sense of belonging. However, with British Columbia being the…
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November 2, 2022Member Spotlight: Dr. Lauren Emberson
Dr. Lauren Emberson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. At UBC, Dr. Emberson’s lab is a part of the Early Development Research Group, a consortium of several research centers interested in the development of perception,…
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November 2, 2022Local Student Wins Bronze at International Linguistics Olympiad
A local student has won a bronze medal at the highly competitive 2022 International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), held on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom, after competing in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO), hosted by the UBC Department of Linguistics. Each year,…
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October 6, 2022Member Spotlight: Asma Afreen
Asma Afreen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. She is also a Global Storybooks team member and a NextGen Scholar in the Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World project (SSHRC Partnership Grant). What are your current research…