REU Site: Intersection of Linguistics, Language & Culture

该项目由SBE理事会的本科生研究经验(REU)站点计划资助，并由国防部与NSF REU计划合作提供支持。它兼具科学和社会效益，集研究和教育于一体。虽然语言学和言语听觉交流科学中基于STEM的模型旨在提供适用于跨语言、社会文化和种族群体的解释，但大部分研究仍然是针对主流美国英语和其他主要语言进行的。此外，语言科学的研究主要是由来自大多数语言社区的专业人员进行的。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。这一为期26周的本科生研究体验(REU)项目旨在解决这两个问题，每年为来自代表性不足社区的18名本科生提供基于STEM的可转让技能和特定于语言科学的知识，以确保学生在专注于演讲、语言和交流科学的研究生课程中取得成功，并与小规模语言社区的成员合作。该方案将包括六个模块：(A)建立学者社区，(B)研究伦理培训，(C)指导科学研究，(D)研究传播，(E)参加讲习班，以准备研究生院的申请文件和促进研究生院的福祉，(F)组织一次方案翻译会议。招收使用学习较少的语言和非主流英语变体的学生，让他们与指导学院一起进行研究，这些学生是语言学和言语语言传播科学(理论语言学、计算语言学、第一和第二语言习得与处理、双语、言语、语言听力和传播科学、发展和后天障碍)的各个子领域的专家，并拥有反映他们对卓越和多样性的承诺的研究记录，这是朝着纠正目前该领域的不平衡迈出的重要一步，并确保学生项目将从纽约市发现的语言和文化多样性的学术研究中受益。该计划将受益于纽约巨大的种族、语言和文化多样性，包括招募学生参与者和项目参与者，以及导师最先进的研究设施，包括Molloy言语感知、言语产生、语言干预和处理以及沟通实验室、布鲁克林学院语言学和社会语言学实验室、纽约大学研究生院发展神经语言学实验室、刘布鲁克林言语听力诊所和言语听觉实验室和伊维多语言/方言研究所的大脑基地。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将通过开放获取的网站提供给实地的新数据集做出贡献，同时鼓励和准备小规模学生从事不同语言和文化的研究生工作。这个REU网站将培养学生成为基于STEM的知识和技能的语言科学成就的研究人员和实践者，以处理微型化的语言和人口。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate and is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. While STEM-based models in linguistics and speech-hearing-communication sciences aim to provide explanations that apply across languages and socio-cultural and ethnic groups, the bulk of research is still conducted on Mainstream American English and other majority languages. Moreover, research in the language sciences is largely conducted by professionals from majority language communities. This is problematic for two reasons: findings are not representative of the increasingly diverse US population and neither are researchers, clinicians and educators. This 26-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program addresses these two issues by equipping 18 undergraduate students per year from under-represented communities with both transferable STEM-based skills and knowledge specific to language sciences that will ensure student success in graduate programs focused on speech, language and communication sciences and in working with members of minoritized linguistic communities. The program will include six modules: (A) Establishment of a community of scholars, (B) Research ethics training, (C) Mentored scientific research, (D) Research dissemination, (E) Participation in workshops to prepare a graduate school application portfolio and promote well-being in graduate school, (F) Organization of a program translational conference. Recruiting students who use lesser-studied languages and non-mainstream varieties of English, and having them conduct research with Mentoring Faculty who are experts in the various sub-fields of linguistics and speech-language-communication sciences (Theoretical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition and Processing, Bilingualism, Speech, Language-Hearing and Communication Sciences, Developmental and Acquired Disorders) and have a research track record that reflects their commitments to excellence and diversity, constitutes an important step toward redressing the current imbalance in the field and ensuring that the student projects will benefit from the scholarly study of the linguistic and cultural diversity found in New York City. The program will benefit from the tremendous ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity of New York, in both the recruitment of student participants as well as project participants, and the mentors' state-of-the-art research facilities that include Molloy Speech Perception, Speech Production, Language Intervention and Processing and Brain Bases of Communication Laboratories, Brooklyn College Linguistics and Sociolinguistics Laboratories, CUNY Graduate Center Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory, LIU-Brooklyn Speech Language Hearing Clinic and Speech-Audiology Laboratory and the YVY Multilingual/dialectal Research Institute. 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 minoritized students to undertake graduate work on diverse languages and cultures. This REU site will prepare students to become accomplished researchers and practitioners in language sciences equipped with STEM-based knowledge and skills to work with minoritized languages and populations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.