Linguistics and the Language Sciences: New Computer Based Methods and Materials for Undergraduate Education

DUE-9653366 PI：Barbara Lust康奈尔大学-捐赠 语言学和语言科学：基于计算机的本科教育新方法和材料 这项建议是在1997年夏季在康奈尔大学举行的美国国家语言学会两年期会议上举办一次为期6天的讲习班。这次研讨会预计将吸引500-700名语言学家，包括教师和学生，主要目标是（i）引发对语言学本科教育现行方法的反思;（ii）重新关注语言学作为一门科学的基本属性，以及作为教授科学探究基本概念的媒介;（iii）介绍、传播和交流促进语言学这一重要方面的计算机辅助教学材料的最新发展。参加者将能够通过使用康奈尔大学新配备的计算机实验室网络获得这些最新教材的经验。 在过去的十年中，一些课程的努力已经出现，试图利用语言学作为本科科学教学的工具。 该项目将汇集这些努力，向更广泛的受众介绍他们的设计理念和成果。 目前的三个项目将在本次研讨会的课程部分。 纽约州立大学石溪分校的理查德·拉森教授发起的“语法即科学”项目就是其中之一。 这已经达到了为高中毕业生和低年级本科生出版名为Semantica和Syntactica的软件的地步，现在可以通过麻省理工学院出版社获得。 第二个焦点是惠洛克学院的教师培训计划--惠洛克学院是波士顿教师培训卓越合作组织的参与者，也是马萨诸塞州最大的K-12教师生产商之一。 该计划的重点是发现语言的隐性知识如何可以用来发展科学探究的建构主义性质的明确把握的目标。 这是通过开发使用语言学作为一种工具，教学科学探究7日至11日年级学生，并教本科生准备在这种方法的教学生涯。 第三个项目将是康奈尔大学认知研究计划中的语言实验室网络，该项目得到了NSF的ILI资助。 该计划目前正在寻求通过开发统一的实验室课程来协调语言学研究与认知研究的相关子领域-心理学，计算机科学和哲学。

DUE-9653366 PI: Barbara Lust Cornell University - Endowed Title: Linguistics and the Language Sciences: New Computer Based Methods and Materials for Undergraduate Education This proposal is to conduct a 6-day Workshop at the national Linguistic Society of America biennial meeting, to be held in Summer 1997, at Cornell University. At this workshop, which is expected to attract between 500-700 linguists, including both faculty and students, the major goals are to (i) provoke rethinking of current approaches to undergraduate education in linguistics; (ii) redirect attention to the fundamental properties of linguistics as a science, and as a medium for teaching essential concepts of scientific inquiry; (iii) introduce, disseminate and exchange current developments involving computer assisted teaching materials which foster this essential aspect of the field of linguistics. Participants will be able to gain experience with these recent teaching materials through the use of a newly equipped network of computer labs at Cornell. Within the last decade, a number of curricular efforts have emerged that attempt to utilize linguistics as a vehicle for undergraduate science teaching. This project will bring together a number of these efforts, introducing their design philosophy and results to a wider audience. Three current projects will be featured in curricular part of this workshop. The project called "Grammar as Science" started by Professor Richard Larson at SUNY-Stony Brook is one of these. This has reached the point of publishing software called Semantica and Syntactica for high school seniors and lower division undergraduates, which is available now through MIT Press. A second focal point is the Teacher Training Program at Wheelock College -- a participant in the Boston Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, and one of the largest producers of K-12 teachers in Massachusetts. This program is focused on the objective of discovering how implicit knowledge of languag e can be used to develop an explicit grasp of the constructivist nature of scientific inquiry. This is being done by developing the use of linguistics as a tool for teaching scientific inquiry to 7th to 11th graders, and teaching undergraduates preparing for teaching careers in this method. The third project to be featured will be the Cornell University Network of Language Labs in the Cognitive Studies Program, which has been supported by an ILI grant from the NSF. This program is currently seeking to coordinate the study of linguistics with related subfields of Cognitive Studies -- psychology, computer science, and philosophy, by developing a unified, laboratory-based curriculum.