Writing & Linguistics Department

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Faculty Research Grants:

Dr. Frank Arasanyin

Source: United States Department of Education

Amount: $112,100
Purpose: "to compile via computer network a pair of basic bilingual dictionaries (Yoruba-English and English-Yoruba) and a monolingual Yoruba dictionary that will include technical/dialectical terms and cultural context; and also be suitable for students studying Yoruba"
 
Assistant Prof. Kathy Albertson

Source: National Writing Project

Amount: $50,000
The Georgia Southern Writing Project's major goals are:
  • to improve student writing and learning in K-16 classrooms
  • to extend the use of writing across all disciplines
  • to identify, celebrate and enhance the professional role of successful classroom teachers
  • to improve the teaching of the writing process
  • to generate a body of knowledge on the teaching of writing through field-based research
  • to encourage teachers of writing to become writers themselves

 
Assoc. Prof. Kathy Albertson
 & June Joyner

Source: Georgia Southern Writing Project

Amount: $6,000
For the past several years the Youth Writing Project program has been effective and fun for students and parents who see the power of writing, but we had not spent time on the professional development angle: as teachers, we planned what we would do with the children and how, but we did not take time to ask why, the core of any teacher’s professional development. Thus, with the jump start funding, we have planned year-round activities to help interested Teacher Consultants become more aware of the pedagogy so that they can take those same summer writing successes back to their classrooms and eventually have those experiences promote additional consulting opportunities for GSWP.
 
Dr. Christian F. Hempelmann

Source: Swiss National Research Foundation (www.snf.ch)

Amount: $10,000
Although humor research has matured since its reinception in the 1970s, many fundamental research issues remain unsolved, including the basic terminology. The project, to take place at the University
of Zurich, Switzerland, is intended to fill this terminological gap by providing a theoretical model (an "ontology") for the concepts related to humor, including 'funniness,' 'incongruity,' 'wittiness.'  The psychological relevance and perceived reality of the lexical terms ("words") that describe these concept in German will be checked experimentally.