Workshop: Project-Based Learning at the African Linguistics School

研讨会：非洲语言学校的项目式学习

• 批准号: 1451683
• 负责人: John Singler
• 金额: $ 5.15万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Project; Based; Learning; African

Inaugurated in 2009, the African Linguistics School (ALS) is a two-week institute held biennially. The next ALS will be held in July 2016, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Most of those in attendance at the school are graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in linguistics at African universities. The attendees also include graduate students from American universities. The aim of the ALS is to provide students with the latest work in core areas of linguistics. The school's students, selected through a highly competitive application process, pay no fees; the ALS covers tuition, room and board, and, for students coming from within Africa, transportation to and from the school. Faculty members, drawn from North America, Africa, and Europe, teach pro bono. The school promotes higher education through the training of outstanding graduate students who return to their institutions with knowledge that they then impart to their own colleagues and students; A number of the students go on to study at leading American graduate programs in linguistics. The ALS promotes intellectual cooperation that may lead to research collaborations among students, postdocs, and faculty, among participants from the US and different countries in Africa. The specific goals of the current grant are to introduce project-based teaching into the ALS curriculum and to increase the diversity of the students in terms of country of origin. The format for ALS courses has been lectures, which have the advantage of providing students with a guided and highly concentrated description of the subject matter. However, especially in an intense two-week institute, there come to be limits as to how much students as audience can absorb. To address this at the next ALS, time will be reserved for projects that involve students working in teams to carry out linguistic research. The projects will focus on hands-on activities, such as eliciting data, applying standard definitions to data, and formulating and testing hypotheses.

非洲语言学学院（ALS）于2009年开幕，是一个两周的研究所，每两周举行。下一个ALS将于2016年7月在象牙海岸的Abidjan举行。大多数出席学校的人都是非洲大学语言学的研究生和博士后学者。与会者还包括来自美国大学的研究生。 ALS的目的是为学生提供语言学核心领域的最新作品。通过竞争激烈的申请流程而选择的学校的学生不支付任何费用； ALS涵盖了学费，房间和董事会，对于来自非洲境内的学生，往返学校。来自北美，非洲和欧洲的教职员工教导波诺。 学校通过培训杰出的研究生来促进高等教育，这些研究生培训他们，他们知道他们会向自己的同事和学生授予他们的机构；许多学生继续在美国领先的语言学研究生课程学习。 ALS促进了智力合作，这可能会导致美国和非洲不同国家的参与者之间的学生，博士后和教职员工之间的研究合作。当前赠款的具体目标是将基于项目的教学引入ALS课程，并在原籍国增加学生的多样性。 ALS课程的格式是讲座，其优势是为学生提供对主题的指导和高度集中的描述。但是，尤其是在一个激烈的为期两周的研究所中，对于听众可以吸收多少学生，有限制。为了在下一个ALS解决这个问题，将为涉及团队中的学生进行语言研究的项目留有时间。这些项目将着重于动手活动，例如启发数据，将标准定义应用于数据以及制定和测试假设。