Catherine Roberts

  1. SOLL Researchers Win Duolingo Dissertation Award

    Catherine Roberts Recently, three PhD students at SOLL have won the Duolingo English Test Doctoral Dissertation Award — Rena Gao, Shengkai Yin, and Niles Zhao.  Rena Gao is supervised by Professor Carsten Roever and Professor Trevor Cohn. Her PhD research is developing a language prediction model that will help understand how studying overseas changes L2 […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/soll-talk/2022/12/23/soll-researchers-win-duolingo-dissertation-award

  2. Tips for confirmation

    With confirmation around the corner for our first year PhD students in SOLL, Catherine put together a list of the best tips for getting through the day with ease.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/soll-talk/2022/11/01/tips-for-confirmation

  3. SOLL staff achievements: an interview with Andi Dorrer

    Andi was recently awarded a prestigious publication subsidy by the Australian Academy of the Humanities for a co-edited volume on remembering WWI in Australia and Germany.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/soll-talk/2022/09/19/soll-staff-achievements-an-interview-with-andi-dorrer

  4. Undergraduate Student Series: an interview with Ruby Mineur

    We kick off our undergraduate interview series with Ruby Mineur! Catherine sat down with her to ask about School Life from the undergraduate perspective.

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/soll-talk/2022/07/21/undergraduate-student-series-an-interview-with-ruby-mineur

  5. Some languages just seem easier to learn than others. Why is that?

    You've hit a wall learning Mandarin but your friend is making great strides with Italian. Is it you? Or are some languages really more difficult to learn than others?

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/soll-talk/2022/06/28/some-languages-just-seem-easier-to-learn-than-others-why-is-that