Language Sciences Flash Talks (Brown Bag Lunch): Italian Sign Language, D/deaf and Hearing Teaching Partnerships in South Africa, Analyzing Head-Mounted Eye Tracking Data, and more!

November 21, 2019, 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Room 2101, Douglas T. Kenny Building

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Come hear about the many aspects of language-related research and work at UBC, and bring your lunch!

This brown bag lunch event is open to all our members, and anyone working in language-related areas. We invite you all - graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, affiliates, and alumni - to bring your lunch and hear about the many different areas of language research, including:

  • Italian Sign Language by Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies student Mirta Roncagalli
  • Teaching and Learning Together: A study of D/deaf and Hearing Teaching Partnerships in South Africa by LLED student Simangele Mabena
  • Identifying early home literacy environment (HLE) profile and its effect on early reading achievement by Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education student Xuejun Ryan Ji
  • An Introduction to Analyzing Head-Mounted Eye Tracking Data by Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education student Andy Ma

Fifteen minutes will be allotted for each talk, with 5 minutes for questions. The event will finish with 30 minutes for general discussion. 

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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