REU Site: The Intersection of Linguistics, Language, and Culture

REU 网站：语言学、语言和文化的交叉点

• 批准号: 2025637
• 负责人: Isabelle Barriere
• 金额: $ 7.31万
• 依托单位: MOLLOY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025637&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Intersection; Linguistics; Language

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. While the goal of models in the language sciences is to provide universal explanations, the bulk of research is still conducted on English and other majority languages. Moreover, research in the language sciences -- despite growing awareness of the need for diversity -- is largely carried out by practitioners from majority language communities. This is problematic for two distinct reasons: findings are not representative of the increasingly diverse US population and neither are researchers, clinicians and educators. This 29-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program addresses these two issues by equipping 14 undergraduate students per year from under-represented communities with the skills and knowledge required to become successful in graduate programs focused on speech, language and communication sciences and in working with members of linguistic minorities. The program will include six key modules: (i) Establishment of a community of scholars through active participation in academic seminars, (ii) Mentored Scientific research, (iii) Research Ethics training, (iv) Research dissemination, (v) Participation in workshops to prepare a graduate school application portfolio, (vi) Organization of a translational conference for students, professionals and community leaders. Recruiting students who use lesser-studied languages, spoken and signed, and non-mainstream varieties of English, and having them conduct research with Mentoring Faculty who are experts in the various fields related to language sciences (Theoretical Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition and Processing, Bilingualism, Speech, Language and Communication Sciences, Developmental and Acquired Disorders) applied to lesser studied varieties of English and other languages, constitutes an important step toward redressing the imbalance and ensuring that the field will benefit from the scholarly study of the linguistic and cultural diversity found in New York City. The program will benefit from both the tremendous ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity of Brooklyn and Queens, in the recruitment of student participants as well as project participants, and the nine mentors' state-of-the-art research facilities that include university-based laboratories such as Long Island University Downtown Brooklyn Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Brooklyn College Linguistics Laboratory, the City University of New York Graduate Center Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory as well as off-campus sites including the Endangered Language Alliance, Haskins Laboratory and YVY Research Institute located in a Head Start program that serves 3,000 children speaking 15 distinct languages. This REU program thus serves two purposes: to involve undergraduates in research projects that can be expected to contribute publishable results and novel data sets that will be made available to the field through open-access websites, while simultaneously encouraging and preparing minority students to undertake graduate work on diverse languages and cultures. Overall, this REU site will prepare students to become accomplished researchers and practitioners in the Speech-Language-Communication Sciences equipped with the knowledge and skills to work with minority languages and cultures.

该项目由社会，行为和经济科学理事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。因此，它具有科学和社会效益，并整合了研究和教育。虽然语言科学模型的目标是提供普遍的解释，但大部分研究仍然是在英语和其他多数语言上进行的。此外，语言科学的研究-尽管人们日益认识到需要多样性-主要是由来自多数语言社区的从业人员进行的。这是有问题的，原因有两个：研究结果不能代表日益多样化的美国人口，研究人员、临床医生和教育工作者也不能代表。 这个为期29周的本科生研究经验（REU）计划通过每年为来自代表性不足社区的14名本科生提供所需的技能和知识来解决这两个问题，这些技能和知识是在专注于演讲，语言和传播科学的研究生课程中取得成功以及与语言少数群体成员合作所必需的。该计划将包括六个关键模块：（i）通过积极参与学术研讨会建立学者社区，（ii）指导科学研究，（iii）研究道德培训，（iv）研究传播，（v）参加研讨会以准备研究生院申请组合，（vi）为学生、专业人士和社区领袖组织翻译会议。招收使用较少学习的语言，口语和手语以及非主流英语的学生，并让他们与语言科学相关的各个领域的专家指导教师进行研究（理论语言学，第一和第二语言习得和处理，双语，演讲，语言和传播科学，发展和获得性障碍）适用于研究较少的英语和其他语言品种，这是纠正这种不平衡的重要一步，也是确保该领域从语言和文化多样性的学术研究中受益的重要一步。发现于纽约市。该计划将受益于布鲁克林和皇后区巨大的种族，语言和文化多样性，招募学生参与者以及项目参与者，以及九位导师的最先进的研究设施，包括大学实验室，如长岛大学市中心布鲁克林语音语言听力诊所，布鲁克林学院语言学实验室，纽约城市大学研究生中心发展神经语言学实验室以及校外网站，包括濒危语言联盟，哈斯金斯实验室和YVY研究所位于一个领先的计划，为3,000名儿童讲15种不同的语言。 因此，该REU计划有两个目的：让本科生参与研究项目，这些项目有望为通过开放式网站提供的可扩展结果和新颖的数据集做出贡献，同时鼓励和准备少数民族学生从事不同语言和文化的研究生工作。总的来说，这个REU网站将培养学生成为有成就的研究人员和实践者，在语音语言传播科学配备的知识和技能，与少数民族语言和文化的工作。