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

该提案将于1997年夏季在康奈尔大学举行的美国国家语言学会两年一次的会议上进行为期6天的研讨会。本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)引发对当前语言学本科教育方法的重新思考；（ii）将人们的注意力转向语言学作为一门科学的基本特性，以及作为教授科学探究基本概念的媒介；（三）介绍、传播和交流有关计算机辅助教材的最新发展，这些教材促进语言学领域的这一重要方面。参与者将能够通过使用康奈尔大学新装备的计算机实验室网络获得这些最新教材的经验。在过去的十年里，出现了一些尝试利用语言学作为本科科学教学工具的课程努力。这个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。本次研讨会的课程部分将介绍三个当前的项目。由纽约州立大学石溪分校的理查德·拉尔森教授发起的名为“语法即科学”的项目就是其中之一。这已经达到了为高中高年级学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。第二个重点是会德洛克学院的教师培训项目，它是波士顿卓越教师培训合作项目的参与者，也是马萨诸塞州最大的K-12教师培养机构之一。该计划的重点是发现语言的隐性知识如何被用来发展科学探究的建构主义本质的明确把握的目标。这是通过发展语言学作为一种工具来教授7至11年级学生的科学探究，以及用这种方法教授准备从事教学工作的本科生来实现的。第三个项目将是康奈尔大学认知研究项目中的语言实验室网络，该项目得到了美国国家科学基金会ILI的资助。这个项目目前正在寻求通过开发一个统一的、基于实验室的课程来协调语言学与认知研究的相关子领域——心理学、计算机科学和哲学的研究。

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.