Research Symposium

BIO

My name is Brooke Engler and I am originally from Wayne, New Jersey. I am a sophomore here at Florida State University and I am studying accounting. I love accounting and business, but in UROP I wanted to get to experience a different side of research, in a major and career path different from my own. In my free time I love reading, working out, and hanging out with my friends and family.

Learning a Second Language Subconsciously

Abstract

Second language learning is taught in the majority of schools across the globe in order to communicate and
collaborate with one another. This study looks into one specific type: unconscious learning. In the data collection
stage, participants in China, who have learned English in many different ways, were surveyed. The participants all
looked at the same graphics put in front of them and then told the story they saw in their own words, in English.
These results were then taken and rated on 2 factors: comprehensibility and accentedness. The results are then going
to be analyzed and compared. The goal is to discover the influence that unconscious second language acquisition has
on the language learning process and how these results differ from those in a traditional learning environment.

Keywords: language, subconscious, second language