Native BYU: Remembering Living Histories

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Maren Loveland, Dr. Michael Taylor, English Department In collaboration with BYU’s recently founded Native American Alumni Association, BYU’s Special Collections, and Diné historian and BYU alumna, Farina King (Northeastern State University), the purpose of this project is to create a permanent physical and digital collection that documents the extensive and diverse history of BYU’s Native American […]

Russian For Professional Purposes Russ 399R Academic Internship

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Tyler Larsen, Jennifer Bown, Russian Department Introduction “Russian for Professional Purposes” was a project to design a curriculum that would teach students a way to independently specialize their Russian. The course directed students to choose a professional field and then do activities. Activities built vocabulary and confidence in communicating about and for the profession. During the […]

Impact of Lexical Bundles on Chinese L2 Learners’ Oral Proficiency

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Corey Ketring, Rachel Yu Liu, Asian & Near Eastern Languages This study examined the efficacy of formulaic language in improving the fluency of Chinese in second-language learners. Formulaic language refers to a group of words that is cognitively stored as one linguistic unit, rather than being analyzed by each indepdent part (Simon, 1974). For instance, if […]

Russian for Professional Purposes: An Experiential and Instruction Based Approach to Advanced Competency Within the Russian Language

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David Joseph, Dr. Tony Brown and Dr. Yekaterina Jordan, Department of German and Russian Introduction Originally, this project aimed to increase Russian language fluency in the legal domain by developing an advanced-level course titled “Russian for Professional Purposes.” As progress in course development proceeded, it was moved into conceptualizing the project as a whole and then […]

Linguistic integration: A comparison of Spanish speakers in Austria and Germany with those in the U.S.

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Nicole Gomez Bravo and Laura Smith, German Introduction This study examined factors influencing the linguistic and cultural integration of Spanish-speaking immigrants into the local language and culture. Immigration and the integration of recent immigrants is an increasingly polarizing topic worldwide, with many citizens complaining that new immigrants fail to learn the target language of their […]

Italian politicians and racialized language on social media: The norming effect on racial attitudes and behaviors towards immigrants

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Janessa Garrow, Marie Orton, French & Italian Introduction Between 2002 and 2011, over 3.5 million non-citizens immigrated to Italy (International and internal migration, 2013). While there has been a decreasing trend in the number of incoming immigrants since the peak in 2007 (over 500,000), there were still over 119,000 migrants who came to Italy in […]

We Don’t Need Another Hero: Historiography and the Sophie Digital Library’s Science and Technology collection

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Michael Evans and Robert McFarland, Humanities Introduction The Sophie Digital Library is an online library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women. These works are focused on the publications from pre- 17th century through the early 20th century. Unfortunately, the group of women in Germany living during this time faced many challenges and […]

The Pygmalion Project

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Sophie Determan, Roger Macfarlane, Comparative Arts & Letters The goal of my project was to assist Dr. Roger Macfarlane in developing the online index of the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts which will be centered at BYU. The OGCMA is an important and widely-used index that identifies 30,000+ artworks spanning from the 1300-1900s. […]