Karl Olaw Christian Wagner and Dr. Wendy Baker Smemoe, Department of Linguistics The research the grant from the Office of Research and Creative Activities has allowed me to perform has been a wonderful opportunity that has helped me to take my undergraduate work to a higher level. To be able to apply the linguistic knowledge […]
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Factors Influencing Language Gains for Chinese Speakers during Study Abroad
Spencer Ring and Andrew Westover with Dr. Dan Dewey, Department of Linguistics and English Language In this project, we aimed to investigate factors that influence study abroad students’ development of linguistic proficiency in Mandarin Chinese. We decided to focus on Mandarin Chinese because, as Dewey (2007) observes, an understanding of what factors affect the development […]
Arabic Study Abroad: An Exploratory Study of Connections between Journal Writing and Language Gains
Kendon Kurzer and Dr. Dan Dewey, Linguistics and English Language This project explored connections between language gains and instances of positive and negative responses as recorded in pseudo-dialogue journals kept by second language learners of Arabic participating in a study abroad (SA) program to Jordan. Daily journals from seven of forty-four total participants were analyzed […]
Ethnic Group Affiliation and Second Language Acquisition
Sarah Franklin and Dr. Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Department of Linguistics and English Language Over the past forty years a significant amount of research has explored how to improve second language (L2) acquisition, most of which has examined factors that influence this ability. Little research, however, has examined how ethnic group affiliation (defined as how closely you […]
Language Acquisition on a German Study Abroad
Zachary Duvall and Dr. Laura Smith, German and Slavic Studies With increasingly difficult economic circumstances, ever more evidence is needed to validate the costs of study abroad. This study iss part of a larger project conducted by my mentor, Dr. Laura Smith and her colleague Dr. Kelling to assess linguistic and cultural changes by students […]
Discrimination and Second Language Acquisition during Study Abroad
Nicholas Kramer and Dr. Laura Smith, German/Slavic Department Our research project has been a very exciting development, and although there is more to be done, we have accomplished a lot in the past year. Three different surveys, all of which had 40 questions, were written and distributed while I was on a study abroad in […]
The Critically Annotated Collected Works of Elisa von der Recke and German-Language Missionary Writings
Michelle S James, Humanities and Dr. Cindy Patey Brewer, German and Russian Without funding there would be no Sophie project, which is why the first item in this report on the Sophie activities during 2013 must again be an expression of our gratitude to both the ORCA office and to the College of Humanities, on […]
A Comparative Study of Playground Behavior of Typically Developing Children And Children With Specific Language Impairment
Melissa Parry & Catherine Ballif with Dr. Martin Fujiki, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology The purpose of this study is to determine the differences in social behaviors of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and typically developing children. Children with SLI are known to be more withdrawn in structured social situations. However, to date, there […]
QUAESTIO LINGUAE 1995: THE USE OF ENGLISH WORDS IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE
Aaron Hess Sherinian, Department of Italian Introduction Scholars have labored for centuries to define the elements that constitute the Italian language. This debate, the “QUAESTIO LINGUAE” or “question of the language” as it is referred to, often takes into consideration the influence of foreign languages upon Italian (Petronio 1987). There are several factors which have […]
The Ch’olti’ Link Language
Craig M. Warren and Dr. John Robertson, Linguistics Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of the Mayan Civilization was their development of a writing system. Remnants of this highly sophisticated writing system can be found beautifully etched on temples and other ancient structures scattered throughout parts of Southern Mexico and Central America. Much of these […]
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