UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #934

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  approximately_how_many_hours_a_week_would_the_research_assistant: '4'
  are_you_currently_looking_for_students_: 'No'
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  contact_email_fsu_email_if_affiliated_: mmt18d@fsu.edu
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  faculty_advisor_name: 'Professor Alysia Roehrig'
  faculty_advisor_s_fsu_email: aroehrig@admin.fsu.edu
  fsu_college: 'Education, Health, and Human Sciences'
  fsu_department_if_applicable_: 'Educational Psychology and Learning Systems'
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  mentoring_philosophy: |2
     This is my second experience mentoring or working with undergraduate students on research projects. I strongly believe in the social nature of doing research. I believe that critical insights emerge from genuine collaboration and exchange of feelings, thoughts and actions regarding meaningful research goals, questions, settings, methods, and implications. I therefore seek to help from one mentee for my doctoral research I am conducting this school year, 2024-2025.
    I intend to create a positive environment of collaboration on my research project that precisely builds on the mentee’s strengths, goals and time availability. I view research projects as a process of trial and error as well as hard and fine work to acknowledge and solve arising issues, collaboratively and constructively. I commit to support the mentee’ development of knowledge-base and analytical skills related to the current project by sharing my own experiences, skills, knowledge and lessons I learned from my 5 years of doctoral work with peers and faculty in my Learning & Cognition program in Educational Psychology and Learning Systems.
    My goal is to provide my mentee with a hands-on experience of research resulting in a completed product including a research poster and local conference presentations such the Research Showcase in the College of Education, Health and human Sciences. I believe strongly in the empowering effect of academic socialization, research dissemination and engagement in research dialogue within our communities on campus and elsewhere.
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  overall_research_project_description: |-
    Title of the study in progress: Students’ perceptions of Duolingo engagement, gains and transfer to the L2 classroom
    Mobile technology, specifically app-based learning has been increasingly acknowledged as a reliable learning support specifically in informal out-of-class settings. However, whether and how students bridge app-based and classroom learning remains largely unexplored. Compounding insights from several theoretical and conceptual frameworks (e.g., complexity theory, student engagement, and proactive language learning theory), this study seeks to answer the question of how Duolingo-based out-of-class engagement transfers to the classroom via learners’ proactive behaviors. Building on the existing scholarship on the transfer of learning, I extend the conceptualization of transfer as adaptive, and I seek to explore nature of engagement, gains and transfer to language classroom settings. Recruited participants are college students who use Duolingo weekly and take a college course in the same language and at the same level to satisfy their language requirements. I plan to collect and analyze multiple quantitative and qualitative data sources in three time-points over one semester. First, I conduct non-intrusive classroom observations of the focal participants. Second, the participants complete a brief experience sampling survey during or immediately after each of the three observed L2 classes. Lastly, semi-structured in-depth interviews capture forms of engagement across the app and the classroom setting. Conceptual and methodological complexity theory tools (e.g., time trajectories) and grounded theory (e.g., constant comparative analysis) are used for data analyses. In the way of a hypothesis for this study, I expect to capture the participants’ interpretations of experiences and key behaviors with the Duolingo app and classroom learning regarding their proactive engagement (cognitive, affective, behavioral, agentic).  
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  please_provide_a_link_to_your_publications_a_video_clip_or_a_web: ''
  please_select_the_choice_that_most_accurately_describes_your_exp: 'Partially Remote'
  please_select_the_location_of_your_project_: 'On FSU Main Campus'
  position_availability_for_student_research: 'Flexible schedule'
  position_title: 'Graduate Student'
  primary_research_mentor_name: 'Mariana Talpau Joos'
  project_keywords: 'language learning, learning apps, Duolingo'
  relevant_student_major_s_: 'Education; Modern Languages; Media and technology; Psychology; Instructional Design.'
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  research_mentor_pronouns: Mira
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  research_tasks_for_student_research_assistant_s_: 'Data transcription; data coding; data analysis.'
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  skills_that_research_assistants_may_need_: |-
    Interest and beginning skills in qualitative data.
    Interest and awareness of learning apps.
    Interest in language learning, applied linguistics, psychology of language learners.
  title_of_the_project: "Students' engagement with app-based learning, gains and transfer to classroom settings"
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  urop_performance_evaluation: '1'
  urop_poster_presentation: '1'
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  when_students_are_reaching_out_via_email_what_is_your_preferreda: ''
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_round2: 'No'
  would_you_like_to_participate_in_the_urop_research_mentor_roundt: 'No'
  year: '2024'