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English Language Proficiency at the Center for Teaching Excellence
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| Project Leader: | Xueyan Hu brittanyhxy@tamu.edu Teaching, Learning & Culture |
| Faculty Mentor: |
Mr. Brandon Cooper, M.D.
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Meeting Times:
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Flexible meeting time from Monday through Thursday for about 1 hour
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Team Size:
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3 (Team Full)
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Interacting with people of varying language and cultural backgrounds.
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Team Needs:
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We need team members to assist with event planning and preparation before the social activity. Team members will also help to host the social activities. We also need team members during data collecting process to help with post study survey distribution, interviewing with participants. During the data analysis stage, we also need team members to help with data cleaning and transcription.
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Description:
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This project aims to examine the impact of linguistic diversity education on improving American undergraduates’ perceptions of international teaching assistants’ accented speech and teaching quality. In this project, American undergraduate participants will be involved in social activities with international teaching assistant and attend a workshop. They will also be required to rate international teaching assistants’ speech samples before and after their participation of the events.
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