Research Symposium

BIO

I am a junior majoring Communication Science Disorders from New Castle, Delaware. After finishing my undergraduate degree, I plan on attending graduate school to earn a master's degree in Speech Language Pathology. I am most interested in studying how humans acquire more than one language and am currently working to complete the Multilingual Services Certificate. Some extra-circulars I am involved in besides UROP, include the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA), Best Buddies, and the Society of Collegiate Scholars. I also participated in FSU's International Program First Year Abroad last year.

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-learning, ESL, Language aptitude