UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #353 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 353

Submission ID: 8016

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Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Created: Wed, 07/12/2023 - 10:38 AM

Completed: Wed, 07/12/2023 - 10:53 AM

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Language: English

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Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Pietro Pesce

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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) ppesce@fsu.edu

Position Title Graduate Student

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FSU College (if applicable) Arts and Sciences

FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Modern Languages

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Additional Research Mentor(s)

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Name of Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) (if applicable) Michael Leeser, Lara Reglero (lreglero@fsu.edu)

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Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) Preferred Honorific? Dr

Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) mleeser@fsu.edu

Overall Project Details

Title of the Project The processing of Passive Sentences by L2 Learners of Italian and Spanish: an exploratory study

Project Keywords SLA Syntax Passives Italian Spanish

Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes

Number of Research Assistants Needed 2

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Linguistics
Spanish
Italian
Statistics
Psychology

Project Location: On FSU Main Campus

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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): Partially Remote

Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 4

Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)

Overall Research Project Description This project aims to collect data in the Linguistics lab: participants will complete the experiment (in Italian or Spanish) and their responses will be recorded and analyzed in SPSS.
The project targets language acquisition, syntax, and cognitive models: specifically, we will be trying to gauge how students process advanced syntax in a foreign language by exposing them to written and auditory stimuli and have them interpret their meaning by way of a picture selection or sentence equivalence task.
Since L2 comprehension is more effortful than it is for the L1, it is expected that performance will vary not only on account of proficiency levels, but also due to individual differences pertaining the cognitive system (memory and control functions).
The project will shed light on some unanswered questions about the relationship between the complexity of L2-syntax and the possibility to repurpose previous knowledge to foster correct processing. Additionally, an attempt at teasing apart the effects of cross-linguistic influence (L1-L2) will be made, to resolve a doubt on the 'weakness' of the intrusion of the non-native language in the processing of the native one.

Research Tasks Literature review, data collection, data analysis, lab report write-ups

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Required: use of excel and word, bibliography search, academic writing

Recommended: use of SPSS, knowledge of a foreign language (Romance), basic notions of statistics

Mentoring Philosophy The involvement of mentees in this project is aimed at having them explore the world of Linguistics research, from literature review and experiment design, to data collection and lab report write-ups. Since so many factors play a role in the successful outcome of research, my concern lies with having mentees learn new skills that may be serviceable outside of my field, and acquire a degree of ease with running experiments and interpreting data; at the same time, it is important to understand that no methodology is perfect, that errors may require a day's work to be thrown out, that being overwhelmed is business as usual, and that it is ok to take a step back and reconvene before deciding where the next step lies. Much the same way as what I do in my classes, I will strive to create a safe and engaging work environment for my mentees, one where collaboration is key to a solid outcome (be it the expected one, or not), and where every contribution counts and is recognized as a win for the person and the group.

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Roundtable times and Zoom links Topic: UROP ROUNDTABLE -- PESCE
Time: Sep 7, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Time: Sep 7, 2023 1:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://fsu.zoom.us/j/92785533986
Meeting ID: 927 8553 3986

UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series? No

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Year 2023

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