Reginald D'Silva


Associate Professor of Teaching

Language & Literacy Education

Faculty of Education

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

Reginald D’Silva has a multidisciplinary background in engineering, computer science and the social sciences.

His PhD research focused on the use of voice recognition software programs in developing literacy skills in post-secondary English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners. He currently is the Academic Director of the UBC Ritsumeikan Academic Exchange programs where he is involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning of language and content courses.

Research interests: Content-Based Teaching and Learning, International Students and Academic Literacies, Technology and Language Learning

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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