02/15 Stage 2: Exploratory Research

Presentation & Feedback

02/11 Exploratory Research Synthesis

Findings & Design Principles

We began our meeting on Saturday by updating our Post-it note collection and sorting them into buckets we’ve been creating over the last week.

02/10 Interview with Candace Skibba

Professor of Hispanic Studies and Applied Second Language Acquisition

Candace Skibba is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies and the Associate Director of the MA in Applied Second…

02/03 Interview with ICC Instructors Peggy Heidish (Director) & Rebecca Oreto (Instructor)

Intercultural Communication Center helps international students, faculty and administrators better understand the influence of culture on classroom dynamics and teaching. The…

2/3 Fly-on-the-Wall Observation

Ashlesha and I attended the ‘Small Talk’ seminar hosted by ICC. The purpose of this seminar is to help…

02/06 Interview with Julia

Works as a language tutor for GPLC- Greater Pittsburgh Literature Council

02/07 Interview with Bonnie

Teaching Professor of French & Francophone Studies

Allison and I visited French professor Bonnie Youngs who is also involved in the research (field) of Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, and…

2/02 Interview with Professor Gang Liu

As an undergrad, I took a few Chinese classes and a few Spanish classes, so I reached out to…

2/2 Interview + 2/4 Observation

2/2 Interview with the librarian

Allison and I reached out to the librarian, Ethan Pullman, to get available and helpful resources from the hunt library according to Peter’s suggestion. As he is familiar with the library…