When it comes to Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy, Japanese is no easy task, especially for a native English speaker in a classroom setting. This is because the Japanese language has many unique characteristics that are far different from English, like the complexity of Kanji characters, counter-words, and many others. These unique characteristics in Japanese […]
A10: Inclusivity in Syntax and Grammar Apps for Educational and Instructional App Usage
There are many commercially available apps for speech-language instruction, yet few have been researched. The Inclusivity in Syntax and Grammar Apps for Educational and Instructional App Usage study had a dual purpose. First, the researchers conducted a literature review of published works on diversity and inclusivity in teaching and therapy strategies to investigate principles of […]
A56: Environmental Significance in Latin American Literature
Our general research area is culture and language. When we began our Spanish 311 class this semester, we learned about various indigenous people in South America and their cultures. My group felt that it was important that our studies made it outside of our classroom because what we are learning is so important to the […]
C62: Society’s Use of Language to Otherize Migrants of Color
While discussing with my advisors, I found myself drawn to the use of language when referring to migrants in America. As described in one of my references, “immigrant groups, regardless of their country of origin, were perceived as a threat at the time of their arrival in the United States”(Wei et al., 2019). However, while […]
BRII-02: Does Late Bilingualism Impact Cognitive Flexibility?
Executive functioning encompasses all the cognitive processes that are involved in conscious thought and action (Anderson, 2002). Research in bilingualism has suggested that those who know a second language have certain advantages in these cognitive processes (Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009). However, it has also been suggested that those who learn their second language […]
C90: Fingerspelling Patterns in Signing Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Our research investigates sign language development in children with ASD. Previous research has shown that signing children with ASD produce unique or idiosyncratic errors such as palm orientation reversals, which may indicate differences in how children with ASD imitate body movements. In this study, we ask if a sample of signing children with ASD produces […]
C92: Exploring Cognition, Language and Emergent Literacy in Young Children with Asthma
The study, “Exploring Cognition, Language, and Emergent Literacy in Young Children with Asthma” investigated factors contributing to children’s home literacy environment and the effects it has on the child’s emergent literacy and language abilities. It also aimed to support previous literature that found children with asthma have poorer language abilities and lower academic performance than […]
A42: Roman Influence on the Emergence of Written German
German is one of the most widely spoken languages today, but what do we know about its origins? While German as a language is different from Latin and later Romance languages, many Indo-European elements of German are very similar to Latin, especially lexically and morphologically. The earliest accounts of the “Germani” were written by Roman […]
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