Stefka H. Marinova-Todd

Stefka H. Marinova-Todd is an Associate Professor at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, University of British Columbia. She holds a BA from York University and an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Harvard University. As a developmental psycholinguist, her research focuses on bilingual language development and second language acquisition across the lifespan.

• Educational Background
  • B.A., York University
  • M.Ed., Ed.D., Harvard University

Her work examines bilingualism in typically-developing children, children with autism, and adults, emphasizing how linguistic, metalinguistic, cognitive, and sociocultural factors influence successful language learning and literacy skills. Research collaborations often involve the Bilingualism Research Group and Adult Language Processing & Disorders Lab at UBC.

Stefka’s personal bilingualism in English and Bulgarian, alongside her language-learning experiences in Russian, German, and French, inform her approach to studying multilingualism and its cognitive impacts.