Though my appointment at MSU does not include a research component, I have continued working with data from my dissertation research on investment in young learners of Arabic and also collected and analyzed data for six further projects. Also, my students regularly complete action research and ethnographic research projects under my supervision. Some of those have been expanded into Experiential Modules, and I hope to present more of those projects at conferences with those students. Projects over the last five years have dealt with the following topics:
I have presented on these projects, individually and in partnership with Shannon, Dustin, and Paula, at national conferences including the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the National Council for Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (NCOLCTL), and the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO). Dustin and I have also presented on priorities we emphasize in the MAFLT at the annual meeting of the Michigan World Language Association (MIWLA). Our students have also presented work they initiated in my courses at state conferences, and a student and I have been accepted to present a paper at NCOLCTL in Spring 2018. In this semester alone, I have 25 students completing projects in regular courses that involve empirical data collection and analysis and 4 students working on EM projects that involve research, so I hope to facilitate more collaborative presentations with students in the coming year.