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Structuring Peer Review Activities for Beginning Learners of German as a Second or Foreign Language
Get PDFThe present paper offers a complete framework for effective implementation of peer review into beginning German language courses. The framework is informed by insights gained from research literature addressing the use of peer review and feedback provided by the students who were engaged in the peer review activities. The suggestions made in this paper have implications for materials development and would allow language instructors to make informed pedagogical decisions
Cold and Lonely Replication
No full textFor this project, my group and I replicated a 2008 study by Zhong and Leonardelli linking social exclusion with lower perceived temperature; in other words, this experiment hypothesized that feeling socially excluded can make us feel cold. We gathered about 60 participants through a combination of asking students to take the Qualtrics survey at a reserved computer lab in the library or they took the survey on their phones for extra credit. We had the participants either reflect on a time when they were socially included or excluded and then estimate what they thought the temperature was in the room. Through the data collected and analyzed, we were unable to find a significant difference between the perceived temperatures of the two experimental groups, meaning our data did not replicate the original findings.
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Ken Gra
Poster: The Myth Behind the Poem
No full textThe poem “Narcissus and Echo” by Fred Chappell is a mythological poem about the Greek creation myths and the feeling behind two specific characters. In the first reading of the poem, Narcissus is recalling his own beauty. He is saying the only gratitude I treasure is my own, I live separated from my reflection but cannot live without it. Look in the water and see the silence of a flower, who whispers my name in air and the world becomes cloudy. This poem has two ways of reading it. The first was a point of view from Narcissus, the “echo” poem was from the point of view of Echo. She felt the empty longing for a man who will not love her (ache of unbeing) the un real love. She questions how the man who loves only himself as to how he does not have a heart as he never loves. Fred Chappell attended Duke University and author of over a dozen books, he has received many awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Bollingen Award, the Aiken Taylor Award, and was North Carolina Poet Laureate from 1997-2002. Chappell calls poetry “the noblest secular endeavor that the human mind undertakes.” In “Narcissus and Echo,” Fred Chappelle makes sure the meaning of the poem is to show readers that there really is two sides to every story. The echo part of the poem follows the myth of the two, as well as shows Echos true feelings about Narcissus. The author uses opposite words when the speaker of the poem changes.
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Lisa Higgin
Short Story Annotation Project: Culture Shock & Educational Immigration
No full textSarah Bredesen and Angelina Ayala as principal investigators
This project had students annotating the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” by Karen Russell, as an entire Honors English 1102 class from Fall 2018. This whole-class project, though, was built of multiple smaller, connected projects. Presenters will provide an overview of the whole project (which can be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/gafe.cod.edu/shortstoryannotation/home), and then a more focused exploration of the smaller research pieces, like the Culture Shock & Educational Immigration project, which examines education immigration in the United States and its impact on universities as well as the workplace.
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Jason Snar