2021 Three Minute Thesis

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Click image to view Jacob Rigal Presentation: Group 2, Heat 1 on November 12, 2021:

Keywords

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; English language--Spoken English;

Abstract

ESL students and all language learners need access to authentic language use. Unfortunately, teachers and textbook writers often just make up what how they think people talk. This research will collect speech as it used around campus in order to make examples of authentic academic spoken English easily accessible to students, teachers, and researchers. Eventually, this corpus will be part if a free, open source web application based on the data. My thesis will discuss the various ways people use English at UNI to do things such as agree, disagree, and ask for clarification. It will offer recommendations for further language learning technologies based on those discoveries and past research in the field of TESOL.

Start Date

12-11-2021 12:00 PM

End Date

12-11-2021 1:30 PM

Event Host

Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa

Faculty Advisor

Aliza Fones

Department

Department of Languages and Literatures

Comments

  • Heat 1, Group 2 - Elm Room, Maucker Union
  • Award Selection Process: The top two from each group in the first heat advanced to the final round to present again. Winners were selected from the Final round.
  • Graduate Program: MA TESOL

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UNICASE (University of Northern Iowa Corpus of Academic English)

ESL students and all language learners need access to authentic language use. Unfortunately, teachers and textbook writers often just make up what how they think people talk. This research will collect speech as it used around campus in order to make examples of authentic academic spoken English easily accessible to students, teachers, and researchers. Eventually, this corpus will be part if a free, open source web application based on the data. My thesis will discuss the various ways people use English at UNI to do things such as agree, disagree, and ask for clarification. It will offer recommendations for further language learning technologies based on those discoveries and past research in the field of TESOL.