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SUMMARY:Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners
DESCRIPTION:Please join the LAAL (Languages & Applied Linguistics) Department for a presentation titled\, “Bridging Divides in Oral and Written Language Research: Development and Disorders in Bilingual Learners” by Jiali Wang (Texas A&M University) on Thursday\, May 14\, at 2:00\, in Hum 1\, 202. \nAlthough oral and written language tap into many overlapping underlying skills\, the investigation of oral and written language has been situated in divided fields\, despite the numerous intersections where one may inform the other. From an interdisciplinary research background of Educational Psychology\, Communication Sciences and Disorders\, and Teaching and Learning\, Wang will share two papers in oral and written language research. First\, she presents a clinical tutorial on how to use the Bilingual Multidimensional Ability Scale (B-MAS) to improve the identification of developmental language disorder among bilingual children. Second\, she presents a paper that examines the language use in the writing of bilingual adolescents. Together\, these studies illustrate how an integrated perspective towards oral and written language research can better support the language and literacy development of bilingual learners\, including those with developmental language disorder. Wang concludes by outlining future research directions aimed at understanding bilingual children’s language and literacy development\, improving language assessment\, and translating findings into actionable tools for instructional and clinical practice. \nJiali Wang\, PhD\, is a postdoctoral research associate at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on bilingual language and literacy development\, with particular emphasis on the assessment and identification of developmental language disorder among Spanish–English bilingual children. She also conducts research on writing development and assessment\, using NLP-derived measures to examine language use in students’ writing. Her work explores how linguistic and environmental factors shape language and literacy outcomes of diverse bilingual populations. Her recent projects include creating clinician-friendly tools for identifying language disorder among bilingual learners\, examining the writing development and assessment of diverse learners\, and investigating the home literacy environment among multilingual families.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bridging-divides-in-oral-and-written-language-research-development-and-disorders-in-bilingual-learners/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Erica Hunt\, Tisa Bryant\, and Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nErica Hunt (St. John’s University)\, Tisa Bryant (University of Iowa)\, and Tonya Foster (San Francisco State University)\, Poets\, Critics\, Artists \nLiving Writers Spring 2026:  Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Journalist David Noriega
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with award-winning journalist David Noriega. \nDavid Noriega is an award-winning journalist and National Correspondent for NBC News. He has reported from all across the United States and more than a dozen countries on five continents\, covering migration\, politics\, armed conflict\, organized crime\, labor\, the environment\, and more. Noriega is the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting from Mexico\, as well as awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists\, the New York Press Club\, the Los Angeles Press Club\, and the French American Foundation. His work has been nominated three times for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-journalist-david-noriega/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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