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

该项目由社会、行为和经济科学局的本科生研究经验(REU)站点计划资助。因此，它兼具科学和社会效益，并将研究和教育融为一体。虽然语言科学中的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主要语言上进行的。此外，语言科学的研究--尽管人们越来越意识到多样性的必要性--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，有两个明显的原因：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。这项为期29周的本科生研究体验(REU)计划旨在解决这两个问题，每年为来自代表性不足社区的14名本科生提供必要的技能和知识，使他们能够在专注于演讲、语言和交流科学的研究生课程中取得成功，并与语言少数群体成员合作。该计划将包括六个主要模块：(I)通过积极参加学术研讨会建立学者社区，(Ii)指导科学研究，(Iii)研究伦理培训，(Iv)研究传播，(V)参加准备研究生院申请文件的讲习班，(Vi)为学生、专业人员和社区领袖组织翻译会议。招收使用学习较少的语言、口语和手语以及非主流英语变体的学生，并让他们与导师一起进行研究，这些导师是与应用于较少学习的英语和其他语言变体的语言科学(理论语言学、第一和第二语言习得与处理、双语、言语、语言和传播科学、发展和后天障碍)相关的各个领域的专家，这是纠正这种不平衡的重要一步，并确保该领域将从纽约市发现的语言和文化多样性的学术研究中受益。在招募学生参与者和项目参与者方面，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，以及九个导师最先进的研究设施，其中包括以大学为基础的实验室，如长岛大学市中心布鲁克林演讲语言听力诊所、布鲁克林学院语言学实验室、纽约市立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、哈斯金斯实验室和伊维研究所，这些网站位于Head Start计划中，为3000名说15种不同语言的儿童提供服务。因此，REU计划有两个目的：让本科生参与研究项目，这些项目有望为可发表的结果和新的数据集做出贡献，这些数据将通过开放获取的网站提供给该领域，同时鼓励和准备少数族裔学生从事不同语言和文化的研究生工作。总体而言，REU的这个网站将培养学生成为言语-语言-交际科学领域的有成就的研究人员和实践者，拥有与少数民族语言和文化打交道的知识和技能。

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.