MSU Linguistics Department

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MSU Linguistics Department

• Advisory Board Meeting
• June 14, 2006

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Introductions

• (Please get a gratis parking ticket if you parked
  in the deck.)

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Agenda

• Review of current programs and staffing
• Report of 2004-6 department activities
• Program offerings we are considering
• Marketing our programs?

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Current Programs

• BA in Linguistics
• BA in Linguistics with TESL certification (from
  NJ)
• Languages ASL, Arabic, Chinese, ESL, Japanese
• MA in Linguistics
• Second field certification in TESL (from NJ)
• TESOL certificate (from MSU)

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Staffing

• Steve Seegmiller retired in January 2006
• Anna Feldman, from Ohio State, will join us in
  September 75 in Linguistics, 25 in Computer
  Science
• Sabbaticals
• Eileen Fitzpatrick (04-05)
• Alice Freed (05-06)
• Department Chair Susana Sotillo (04-05)

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2004-2005 Special Activities
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2004-5 Special Activities

• The Linguistics Department Website was completely
  redesigned.

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2004-5 Special Activities

• Content-based English Teacher Training developed
  by Longxing Wei for East China Normal Univ. and
  taught there by Dr. Wei and faculty from English
  and College of Education

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2004-5 Special Activities

• Workshops for Students
• on Career Development in ESL
• Workshop on K-12 ESL Rubrics
• Workshops for Adjuncts
• "Is Online Assessment Possible? Alternative
  Assessment Strategies for Online Education,
  February 23, 2005. 
• Videoconference on the effective use of rubrics
  for assessing student learning, in collaboration
  with Peter Campbell, MSUs BlackBoard
  Instructional Specialist, March 21, 2005. 

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2004-5 Special Activities

• Japanese and Chinese Club Activities
• (Yahui Olenik, faculty advisor)
• Ikebana workshop for students and faculty
• Bonenkay, a Japanese year-end party      
• Chinese New Year Festival to celebrate the Year
  of the Rooster
• Brush calligraphy workshop
• Sushi workshop

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2005-2006 Special Activities
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2005-6 Special Activities

• Pilot program in English for Special Purposes
  Teaching for P-3 certification students
• TESL programs received national recognition from
  the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
  Education (NCATE), with conditions.
• Began work with International Business Dept. to
  provide language skills and proficiency testing
  for IB majors.

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2005-6 Special Activities

• Presentation by Japanese Exchange Teaching
  program, which places students into jobs in Japan
• Presentation by EBPass Inc., a recruiting company
  for job opportunities in Japan.
• Japanese and Chinese Club Activities
• Bonenkay, a Japanese year-end party      
• Chinese Spring Festival
• Fukui Festival (Fukui is a sister province of NJ)
• Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese participated in
  MSUs World Fair Day and won 3rd prize for
  their presentation.

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Externships (non-MSU entity)in last five years

• Employer Students
• Army Research Lab 3 grad students
• E.J.Brooks 2 grad students
• ETS 1 grad student
• LinguisTech/DDT 3 UGs, 4 grad students
• Lucent Bell Labs 2 grad students
• MSB/VOX 2 UGs
• Proteus Project, NYU 1 UG, 1 grad, 1 alum
• Random House 1 grad student

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Internships (MSU entity) in last five years

• Project Students
• MELD 3 grad students
• 1
  UG, 3 alums
• Metaphor identification 2 UGs
• Sentence Processing 2 UGs, 2 grad students

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Grad Student Activity
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M.A.s conferred

• Reiko Kawahara. Japanese Sentence-Final
  Particles.
• Simona Mancini. Comprehending Aspect and Telicity
  in Italian The Role of Event Structure in
  Parsing Garden-Path Sentences

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Current MA Candidates Research

• Jessica Delarosa. Preferred Second Language
  Learning Strategies of Japanese and Colombian
  Students
• Ann Evans. Factors Affecting Language Maintenance
  of the
• Ethnic Macedonian Community in Greece
• Reem Faraj. The Role of Derivational Morphology
  in English-Arabic Medical Translation
• Melinda Moss-Senel. Been and Beyond
  Tense/Aspect Marking in Dialects of Southern
  English other than AAVE
• Veronica Pimienta. The Effects of Exposure to the
  Culture of the Target Community on the
  Realization of Apologies in English
• Jillian Ritchie. Analysis of weil clauses in
  spoken German A Competition Model
• Joanna Rodzen. The Intelligibility of Indian
  English How Teaching American English to Indian
  Students Affects Their Intelligibility for
  Americans
• Kae Shigeta. A Corpus-based Study of Japanese
  Non-Native Speakers Use of Polite Negative Forms
• Diego Vargas. Native and Non-native Speakers
  Perceptions of Non-native Accents

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Graduate Student Achievements

• Simona Mancini
• first author on a paper accepted for AMLaP 06
  (Architecture and Mechanisms of Language
  Processing) in Nijmegen, Holland.
• co-presenter of a poster at the CUNY2006 Human
  Sentence Processing conference.
• co-author at AMLaP 05 in Ghent, Belgium

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Graduate Assistants

• Jessica Delarosa helped code and analyze Yahoo!
  IM chatscripts for a study on computer-mediated
  communication that was published in CALICO, 2005.
• James Hart - worked on the Montclair Electronic
  Language Database (MELD)
• Simona Mancini supported shared work in Psych
  and Ling on sentence processing
• Veronica Pimienta assistant in UG Language and
  Society class taught 3 ESL independent studies

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Graduate Assistant Allotment

• 2005-2006
• 2 GAs allotted to Linguistics by the University
• 1 GA allotted by Global Education (this year from
  Mexico)
• 1 GA allotted as a supplemental GA (for previous
  grant money brought in)
• 2006-2007
• 1 GA allotted to Linguistics by the University
• 1 GA allotted by Global Education (this year from
  China)

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Undergraduate Activity
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Degrees conferred

• B.A.s 10
• with NJ TESL Certification 1
• Career Choices
• Teaching (ESL) 2
• Graduate school 4
• Linguistics Georgetown, Montclair
• Intelligent Systems Newcastle

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Undergrad Accomplishments

• Eileen Mathis interned at MSB/Vox, doing work in
  discourse analysis.

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Faculty Activity

• see enclosure

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Advisory Board Activity
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Advisory Board 04-06Extraordinary Contributions

• Grants to MSU Linguistics
• Joan Bachenko.Deception Discovery Technologies.
  Linguistic Indicators of Deception
• Student Internships
• MSB/Vox
• Student job placement
• MSB/Vox
• Outside readers on MA research
• Joan Bachenko, Leslie Barrett

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Program Offerings we are Considering

• Serious Planning
• Language Teaching Technologies graduate
  certificate (see enclosure)
• Deaf Studies undergraduate minor (see
  enclosure)
• Under Discussion
• Undergraduate track in Linguistics leading to
  graduate work in Communications Sciences and
  Disorders
• Further out
• Forensic Science

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Marketing these Programs

• How?
• Through our connections with local school
  districts, World Languages coordinators, and
  alumni. . . .
• To whom?
• Foreign and second language teachers in local
  and regional school districts principals who
  would like to obtain expertise in the uses of
  technology in language teaching and learning and
  law-enforcement and support services personnel
  who may want to pursue a graduate certificate
  program at MSU. . . .