Project Grant 1924593

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $123,618 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants. The project aims to explore how experimental linguistics studies can be leveraged for public engagement, by examining participants' perceptions of language and linguistics and testing whether improved science...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $124,539 to support research examining the links between perception and production of second language speech sounds over time. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to the University of Texas at Austin will lay the foundation for developing a comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Researchers will train...

This National Science Foundation project grant award of $116,990 supports research into deconstructing wordlikeness judgments through interconnected experimental and computational studies. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award will provide research training and mentoring opportunities for graduate students in modern experimental and computational methods related to phonotactic knowledge and language sciences. Specifically, the City University...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 two-year Project Grant to support research titled "MECHANISMS TO SUPPORT WORD LEARNING IN A NON-NATIVE LANGUAGE" located in Eugene, Oregon. The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2023 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to promote basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $160,151 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: LINGUISTIC PRODUCTION, PERCEPTION, AND IDENTITY IN THE CAREER MOBILITY OF BLACK FACULTY IN LINGUISTICS AND THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES." The research will be conducted from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024 under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program aims to promote...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $344,869 to Tufts University to develop and implement professional development for Learning Assistants (LAs) to improve their facilitation of student learning in active learning STEM courses. The key objectives are to design and implement a new LA pedagogy course sequence based on recent research (Goal 1) and investigate how this pedagogy sequence impacts LA facilitation...

Learnics, LLC was awarded a $945,159 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The award will support the company's "SBIR PHASE II: ACTIONABLE LEARNING ANALYTICS FOR THE CLASSROOM" project. Learnics will develop actionable learning analytics to provide teachers with real-time insights into student comprehension and engagement in the classroom. The NSF Engineering...

The National Science Foundation awarded $122,710 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Stanford University from June 2022 to July 2023. The project aims to increase diversity in the linguistic sciences through an Research Experiences for Undergraduates site examining the role of language in social mobility. Undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions will conduct...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $147,672 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct collaborative research on "Every Participant Counts: Investigating the Impact of Experimental Language Research on Participants." The project aims to explore how researchers can bring their roles of conducting experimental studies and engaging the public closer together,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 5-year, $368,295 Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program grant titled "CAREER: SUPPORTING TEACHERS TO LEVERAGE STUDENTS' LANGUAGES IN MATHEMATICS" to North Carolina State University (NC State). This project partners with a public middle school to co-design, analyze, and improve teachers' "translanguaging pedagogies" - instructional approaches that draw on students' full linguistic repertoires as resources for mathematics...