Recent Presentations and Publications by OEPP Staff
Cheng, L. & Li, X. (2023, September 9). Pre-post elicited imitation: Documenting proficiency development in a two-semester EAP program. [Paper presentation]. Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT) conference, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
This study examined a locally-developed elicited imitation (EI) test to document international freshmen's English proficiency development and to provide empirical evidence for student learning and program effectiveness.
Haugen, M., Swanson, K., & Vahed, S. (2023, September 21). AI and Language Learning: Developing and Assessing Speaking Skills for Academic and Professional Purposes in English as a Second Language [Presentation]. 2023 Purdue System-Wide Forum: Reimagining Higher Education with Artificial Intelligence. Virtual, Purdue University.
With examples drawn from our own use case of English as a Second Language for Academic and Professional Purposes, this presentation focused on the opportunities, advantages and disadvantages that the current landscape of AI-powered tools offers for facilitating the learning of new languages, no matter whether participants are language students, language teachers, or stakeholders that work with language learners in other types of academic/professional contexts.
Lageveen, B. (2024, May). Improving Your Oral English: Phrases and Proficiency. [Invited Lectures]
This interactive lecture focused on using effective prosody in idiomatic academic phrases. The lecture was given once each at Danang University of Economics, Danang, Vietnam; Hung Vuong University, Hanoi, Vietnam; Shizuoka University of Culture and Arts, Hamamatsu, Japan.
Li, X. (2023, October 27). An evaluation of an elicited imitation task using item analysis and pre-post changes. [Paper presentation]. East Coast Organization of Language Testers (ECOLT) Conference, Washington, D.C.
This study analyzed the technical qualities of a locally developed elicited imitation (EI) test and examined students' gains from a pre-test to a post-test to provide suggestions for test revisions and future EI test development.
Miller, D., DeLuca, V., Swanson, K. & Rothman, J. (2023). Neurocognitive methods in Formal Linguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition and Processing. In J. van Hell & K. Morgan-Short (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics (pp. 177-190). New York: Routledge.
This chapter highlighted how neurocognitive research methods such as EEG and fMRI have been integrated into the way that generative linguistics approaches the study of adult second language acquisition, showing in particular how they have brought new evidence to bear on long-standing questions as well as how they have opened up entirely new avenues of inquiry.
Swanson, K. (2023, November 18). Teaching Pronunciation in ESL: A Primer [Workshop]. Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2023, Indianapolis, IN.
To prepare instructors to effectively help their students improve their pronunciation, this workshop introduced the Communicative Framework (Celce-Murcia et al., 2010) as well as articulatory phonetics, engaging activities, and useful resources, including AI.
Wright, J. (2023, November 18). Let Them Be Heard: Differentiated Student-Centered Discourse Strategies. [Workshop]. Indiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 2023, Indianapolis, IN.
This workshop focused on a variety of communicative activities and strategies that support a more learner-centered language-learning environment where every student in the classroom has an opportunity to contribute.