Languages Without Borders: Creating an Enhanced Teacher’s Guide for Romanian 101

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Sarah Holden and Dr. Michael Bush, Center for Language Studies Importance of the project Brigham Young University’s Romanian orphanage internship has been a popular and well-attended program since its inception, attracting mainly students majoring in childhood development, nursing, psychology, and health sciences. The volunteer work these interns perform during their semester abroad is of utmost […]

Dostoevsky and Design

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Matisse Hales and Dr. Mark Purves, Department of Russian The purpose of our project was to create a special edition of BYU’s Germanic & Slavic Department journal, Perspectives, containing creative work by undergraduate students inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky and art are two subjects not frequently connected, and in our quest to relate the two, […]

The Video Essay: Introducing an Increasingly Relevant Sub-genre

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Jacob Cutler and Dr. Patrick Madden, Department of English Teaming up with Inscape (BYU’s journal of literature and art) has proven to be fundamental for my ORCA project. In addition to publishing two of my video essays, Inscape has published my short essay explaining and introducing the concept of the video essay. I have included that essay below […]

Noun-Preposition Collocations: The 2010 Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) Compared to the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

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Christina Champenois and Professor Doris Dant, Department of Linguistics and English Language Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines collocation as “a noticeable arrangement or conjoining of linguistic elements” (s.v. “collocation”). Collocational constructions may present difficulties to editors, translators, and second-language learners. Malgorzata Martyńska explains that collocations tend to be “one of the most problematic and error-generating area [sic] of vocabulary, especially for […]

The Impact of Different Learning Styles on Language Study and the Formation of Long Term Memory

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Benjamin Black and Dr. Masakazu Watabe, Department of Humanities My Approach The purpose of my ORCA project has been to research different methods of language study and ultimately shed light on the method of study that will best engage the student in the target language, keep their motivation to study as high as possible and […]

Multilingual Extraction Ontologies

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Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics and English Language On December 29, 2009 we were informed that our application for a 2010 MEG grant was approved. This final report sketches the accomplishments attained during the project’s timeframe since then. The project’s proposed academic objectives were as follows: Recruit, bring together, and mentor students from computer […]

A Comparative History of Nordic Literary Cultures

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Dr. Steven Sondrup, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature I received a MEG in December of 2009 and, thus, pursued the goals outlined in that application during 2010 and am continuing through 2011. The proposal was to have selected students work closely with me on preparing a manuscript on the comparative history of Nordic […]

Refinement
 and 
Validation 
of 
Elicited 
Imitation 
as 
a 
Measure
 of 
Oral
 Proficiency


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Dr. Dan Dewey, Department of Linguistic and English Language We 
were 
able 
to 
achieve 
most 
of 
the 
goals 
established
 in 
the 
MEG 
proposal 
we
 submitted
 in 
the 
Fall 
of 
2008 
(for
 a 
grant 
Winter, 
2009). 

We 
did 
end 
up
 adjusting
 the 
project 
and 
use 
of 
the 
funds 
slightly 
to 
adapt 
to 
changing 
needs 
and 
to […]

The Sweat of Their Brow

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Dr. Kristi Bell, Department of English I received a MEG award that was disbursed Fall Semester 2009. It was a three semester program running through Fall Semester 2010. Because of leftover funds I have been able to do additional work through Summer 2011. Summary of Project By the Sweat of Their Brow was an oral […]