Project Grant P016A200017

The Federal Project Grant award of $183,619.00 from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (CFDA 84.021) program is funding an initiative led by National Louis University to improve P-12 bilingual education. The project, titled "CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC RESTORATION - IMPROVING P-12 BILINGUAL EDUCATION," aims to enhance modern foreign language and area studies education in the United States through training,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $449,534 to the University of Hawaii at Manoa to document endangered languages through training and capacity building in diaspora communities. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Producing richly annotated, multipurpose language documentation materials to serve as the foundation for grammatical studies; 2) Conducting targeted studies of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $449,712 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to document and analyze endangered language varieties spoken in a linguistically diverse border region as part of the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program (CFDA 47.075, Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences). The award period is from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025....

This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will support research examining syntactic regulation and adaptation in bidialectal and heritage bilingual speakers. The goal is to better understand the nature and consequences of proficient, multidialectal language experience. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Julie Washington at the University of California, Irvine, the postdoctoral fellow will conduct a neurolinguistic...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $1,150,000 Project Grant to Loyola Marymount University under the Comprehensive Centers Program (CFDA 84.283) to establish a Center on English Learners and Multilingualism. The center will provide training, professional development, and technical assistance to state, regional, and local educational agencies to improve educational opportunities, close achievement gaps, and enhance instructional quality, with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $261,181 to the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) to conduct a multi-year study analyzing the determinants that shape language restoration and development within communities. The research utilizes a combination of linguistic analyses, observations, interviews, participatory methods, and digital network analysis to track how language is introduced and emerges as a mode of...

The University Center of Lake County received a $5,537,300 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Innovative Approaches to Literacy; Promise Neighborhoods; Full-Service Community Schools; and Congressionally Directed Spending for Elementary and Secondary Education Community Projects program (CFDA 84.215). The award will support the development and improvement of literacy skills for children and students from birth...

Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville received a $227,604 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports the establishment of a dynamic language infrastructure community of science to preserve endangered and under-documented languages through cross-disciplinary collaboration and capacity building. Products include...

This $607,783 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative (CFDA 45.031) will enable the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) to partner with the Museum of Art and History to create an internship program for 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate students. The interns will receive training in public programming, curatorial and exhibition development, and mentorship. The fellows will develop a...

This $418,424 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages program will fund the University of Oregon's project to collaboratively document an endangered indigenous language. The key products of this 3-year project include: 1) a crowdsourced digital quadrilingual dictionary created using the Living Dictionaries progressive web app, with...