Ensuring Full Literacy is a team of Canadian and international scholars and industry, community and outreach partners working to bridge the many dimensions of literacy acquisition in our multicultural and digitally-connected world.
Ensuring Full Literacy is a team of Canadian and international scholars and industry, community and outreach partners working to bridge the many dimensions of literacy acquisition in our multicultural and digitally-connected world.
Our researchers bring expertise in the skills central to literacy development, such as oral language and culture, and in new, cutting-edge methodological approaches, including digital media, neuroimaging, and computational analysis.
Our goal is to generate the scientific knowledge necessary to ensure full literacy – the deep text comprehension needed to succeed in our rapidly-evolving knowledge economy – in increasingly diverse workspaces and communities.
The 2025 Ensuring Full Literacy Annual Meeting will be held in person at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) in Edmonton, AB on June 4 & 5, 2025.
As part of the event, we will make space for a number of presentations, and we are pleased to invite you to present at the meeting. To confirm your attendance (in-person or virtually) and to indicate your interest in presenting, please fill out this Initial RSVP & Call for Presentation form by March 15, 2025.
For any questions, please contact Nympha at ensuring.literacy@ubc.ca.
From Research to Community: Bridging Academia and Everyday Impact
As graduate students in interdisciplinary research teams, we’re often thrown into complex and dynamic situations. Our team, a collaboration between Dalhousie University, Simon Fraser University, and industry partner Mango Languages, came together with a shared goal: to evaluate how language learning apps can enhance classroom instruction. Through our collaboration, we aim to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world application.
Parents’ Perceptions on the Pandemic’s Impact on Children’s Development
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns about its impact on various aspects of children’s development have been at the forefront of discussions among parents, educators, and researchers. A recent collaboration between researchers from the Ensuring Full Literacy team and The Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation (CCLF) sheds light on parents’ perceptions of how the pandemic has influenced the language, literacy, and social skills of their preschool-aged children.
Bridging the Gap: How the EFL-Shoelace Learning Partnership is Revolutionizing Literacy Education
In a rapidly evolving digital world where children are more connected to screens than ever before, the need for innovative solutions to improve literacy skills has never been more critical. Enter the Ensuring Full Literacy (EFL) team’s partnership with Shoelace Learning, a company dedicated to transforming reading comprehension education through an engaging games-based online platform.
Dr. Janet Werker awarded the prestigious 2024 Benjamin Franklin Institute Medal
Congratulations to Dr. Janet Werker, University Killam Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, on being selected for the 2024 Benjamin Franklin Institute Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science! This highly esteemed award, presented by The Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, is a testament to Dr. Werker’s…
Learn MoreDr. Abdul-Mageed named Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Congratulations to Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed for being named a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in the 2022 round of CRC appointments! Dr. Abdul-Mageed is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Department of Linguistics and an Associate Member in Computer Science at UBC. He is also a…
Learn MoreMay 2022 Presentation
The fourth presentation in the Literacy and Technology & New Media Themes: Speaker Series will be given by Dr. Guofang Li . This presentation will take place at 12pm EST on May 17th, 2022. See a brief abstract below. For recordings of past presentations in this series, see here.
Learn MoreOur interdisciplinary team of researchers and partners focus on factors critical to achieving full literacy in an increasingly digital and multicultural world. Our goal is to create knowledge, programs, services, and products that ensure success for all readers, but with special attention on those readers whose challenges might not yet be recognized or understood.
