Conference: Rethinking how language background is described in academia and beyond

会议：重新思考学术界及其他领域如何描述语言背景

• 批准号: 2335912
• 负责人: Savithry Namboodiripad
• 金额: $ 4.92万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335912&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Rethinking; how; language; background

This award supports a symposium designed to address challenges with how language researchers have described and measured the varied ways that people use and feel about the language or languages they know. Terms that are often used to describe people, such as “native speaker” or “monolingual”, are often not accurate or specific enough for research purposes, and often end up mischaracterizing people’s experiences and abilities. This has had effects as broad as miscounting the number of speakers of a language, hiring discrimination, ineffective language instruction, and misdiagnoses of learning disorders. Because these problems originated in language research, it is urgent that language scholars come together to work towards solutions, within research and beyond.This two-day event brings together researchers to first outline the challenges with how these concepts are currently used across contexts such as language learning, bilingualism research, speech and hearing sciences, and psycholinguistics. Then, participants work together to identify solutions, including more accurate ways of capturing language background and abilities, put together suggestions for how to improve practice in research, assessment, and instruction. Finally, participants work to package these messages for various audiences, including funding agencies, other academics, and the general public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持了一个研讨会，旨在通过语言研究人员如何描述并衡量人们对他们所知道的语言或语言的多种方式来应对挑战。通常用来描述人们的术语，例如“母语者”或“单语言”，通常不足以进行研究目的，并且通常会使人们的经历和能力误解。这与误解语言的说话者的数量一样广泛，雇用歧视，无效的语言指示和误诊学习障碍。由于这些问题起源于语言研究，因此迫切需要语言学者团结起来，努力解决解决方案，在研究及以后。这两天的事件汇集了研究人员，首先概述了这些概念在语言学习，双语研究，语音和听力科学和心理语言等环境中如何使用这些概念的挑战。然后，参与者共同努力确定解决方案，包括更准确的捕获语言背景和能力的方法，为如何改善研究，评估和指示的实践提供了建议。最后，参与者致力于为各种受众打包这些信息，包括资助机构，其他学者和公众。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，以诚实的方式表示支持。