Category: News
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Bicentennial Ambassadors: Spanish-Speaking Game Day
We hosted an intercultural mixer with 24 visiting Mexican students and Spanish-language learners on campus. They were playing traditional Hispanic board games like Lotería, Parchís, and Dominó while speaking in Spanish. We all had such a blast!
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Maxine Uy Altura presents her research at the Koret Undergraduate Research Slam 2023
On Friday, June 2nd, Maxine Uy Altura, a junior in the Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism major presented her research entitled “Cross-linguistic influence in Tagalog-English bilingual speech” at the Koret Undergraduate Research Slam at McHenry Library.
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El Centro Event
El Centro invited the Spanish language section in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, to participate in their annual event “La Bienvenida 2023” on October 14th at the Quarry Plaza on campus.
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Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
On Monday, October 16th, the Chinese program brought our students together for a special collaborative class centered on the lively Mid-Autumn Festival, a significant Chinese holiday.
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Welcome to our newest faculty member: Saori Hoshi
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Saori Hoshi to our department as Assistant Professor of Japanese and Applied Linguistics. Saori received a Ph.D in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese) from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2017 and comes to our department from the University of British Columbia.
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Harbor High Visit
On May 10, the department of Languages and Applied Linguistics hosted a visit by Harbor High School students and their parents. The group consisted of 9 parents who form part of Harbor High’s English Learner Advisory Council as well over 30 students, many of whom have recently migrated to Santa Cruz from Latin-American countries.
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The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XXI May 12-14, 2023
Cowell College, Stevenson College and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics will present the 21st season of the Miriam Ellis international Playhouse (MEIP XXI), May 12, 13, and 14, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center at UCSC.
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Celebration of Life event for Miriam Ellis
On December 3, 2022, UCSC will host a memorial to celebrate the life of Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita of French, fellow of Cowell College, and founder of the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP)
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Spanish Studies Alumni Highlight
The Spanish Studies program in the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz is proud of our alumni and their accomplishments. We are starting this Alumni Spotlight as a way of highlighting those alumni who are doing great things.
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Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita (1927—2022)
Miriam Ellis, lecturer emerita of French at UCSC from 1979 to 2004, died at home on March 14, 2022, a few hours before the seventh anniversary of the death of Paul, her dear husband. Her whole life, she shared a very close relationship with her children: her daughters Debra and Vicki, her son Jonathan and…
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Peter Rushton and Jacqueline Ku Endowment Supports Chinese
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is delighted to announce the creation of the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline Ku Endowed Memorial Fund for Chinese Languages, thanks to support from Nicole Tsao and a generous gift from Philip Rushton.
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Lecturer Edith Leni Receives Grant
Lecturer Edith Leni has received a grant to develop a Global Classroom partnership between UCSC and the Universidad Arturo Prat in Iquique, Chile.