Catherine Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?