Grants
On this page, you can browse the grants that have funded the MACAWS team's work.
Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Catalyst Seed Grant
2024-2026, for “Learner Corpus Research Group" (Fernandez, PI; Staples, Co-PI: $4,479).
Social and Behavioral Sciences Institute (SBSRI) Faculty Research Grant
2023-2024, for “Expanding Corpus-Based Instruction to Less Commonly Taught Languages: Illustrating the Value of Learner Corpora of Portuguese and Russian" (Staples, PI: $5,000).
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy (CERCLL) Faculty Research Fellow
Summer 2023, for “Modeling Spoken Learner Corpus-Based Instruction for Less Commonly Taught Languages” (Staples, PI: $5,000).
Title VI Department of Education Grant
2018-2023, coordinated through the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, & Literacy, for “MACAWS: Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments, Writing and Speech” (Staples, PI: $40,000).
Social and Behavioral Sciences Institute (SBSRI) Dissertation Research Grant
Fall 2022, for "Oral development in L3 Portuguese by English-Spanish bilinguals" (Centanin-Bertho, PI: $2000).
Linda Waugh Research Grant
Spring 2022, for "Oral development in L3 Portuguese by English-Spanish bilinguals" (Centanin-Bertho, PI: $1500).
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) Research Grant
Spring 2022, for "Oral development in L3 Portuguese by English-Spanish bilinguals" (Centanin-Bertho, PI: $2500).
Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Research Grant
Spring 2022, for "Oral development in L3 Portuguese by English-Spanish bilinguals" (Centanin-Bertho, PI: $1500).
American Association of Teachers of Portuguese (AOTP) Travel Grant
Summer 2019, for "MACAWS e o ensino de escrita: O uso de um corpus de textos de aprendizes de português para a criação de materiais didáticos" (Sommer-Farias, PI: $500)
Linda Waugh Research Grant
Spring 2019, for “Lexico-grammatical and pragmatic development of L2 Russian learners in a longitudinal study”, University of Arizona (Novikov, PI: $300)
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy (CERCLL) Summer Faculty Research Grant
Summer 2018, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy, for “Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments - Writing and Speech (MACAWS)” (Staples, PI: $4995.95).
Linda Waugh Research Grant
Spring 2018, for “Using learner data as evidence of L3 development”, University of Arizona (Picoral, PI: $500).