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Collaborative Research (continued)

Skidmore students and their professors have worked together on numerous research projects. This kind of high-level scholarship does more than enhances a student's understanding in a given disipline; the practical, hands-on experience and "real-world" accomplishment also instill a sense of confidence that will benefit a graduate in any career. Projects from recent years appear below, arranged by academic area.

English

Project: Phonological Instruction to Novice Speakers of a Foreign Language
Participants: Associate Professor Joanne Devine and Jeffrey E. Smith '02
Plan: This project will study the effect of phonetic instruction to novice speakers (students in their first year of language study) of Spanish and try to draw a conclusion about its usefulness in the beginner classroom.

Project: Communication Strategies in Second-Language Development
Participants: Associate Professor Joanne Devine and Benjamin Miller, '00
Plan: In the area of second-language acquisition, there is a long history of interest in the source of learners' errors in communication. Particular attention focuses on those instances when second-language learners' communicative needs exceed their linguistic resources and thereby force them to employ "communication strategies" to remedy the situation. While second-language researchers have compiled extensive inventories of these strategies, to date there has been little research on the "teachability" of communication strategies. The proposed study is a preliminary investigation into the effectiveness of instruction in these strategies. It will serve as the basis for continued research in this area.




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