School of Languages and Cultures

2023 Winter Research Program

Engage in a formal research project over the summer semester with the UQ Summer Research Program.

The UQ Winter Research Scholarship Program offers scholarships to students wishing to gain experience working alongside a researcher in a formal research environment in their area of interest at UQ.

Applications have closed

Each project will be offered for a period of four (4) weeks between Monday 26 June – Friday 21 July 2023.

Participation is open to undergraduate (including honours) and master by coursework students who are currently enrolled and will remain at UQ for the entirety of the research program.

Discover more about the Winter Research Program

  1. Memory discourses in letters to women who were executed and disappeared in Chile.
  2. How accurate is professional Mandarin/English interpreters' real-life telephone interpretations?
  3. Translating Testimony from Survivors of Enforced Disappearances in the Algerian War
  4. Multimodal public health communication
  5. Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.
  6. Potential impact of learner background factors on their communication in a second language - Part 2
  1. Language use and story structure: Analysis of stories told by Russian-English bilingual children
  2. Socio-pragmatic understanding of (im)politeness in Korean discourse
  3. ChatGPT for schools – Curating a prompt taxonomy for AI in F-10 Education.
  4. Border-Crossing Australian and Japanese Literature: Literary Exchange as Cultural Diplomacy
  5. Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

11. Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

Project title: 

Empowering Asian language speakers to become language teachers in Australian schools

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

4 weeks from 26 June to 21 July. 25 hours per week.

Winter Research Scholars can work from home but are required to attend regular face-to-face meetings.

They are also required to attend a one-day symposium at UQ on July 3

Description:

This is part of a large project on Asian language teaching in Australian schools. One-day symposium will be held at UQ on 3 July, which is funded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia. The symposium will 1) evaluate the current system for becoming qualified language teachers of Asian languages; 2) address problems surrounding opportunities for native and heritage speakers within the education system for language learning; and 3) propose a change to increase the number of qualified teachers in Australian schools. This project provides document analysis and literature review on teaching and learning of six major Asia languages in Australia —Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.

 

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

The expected outcomes of this project include documentation of language policy and planning in relation to the six Asian languages in Australian education system and literature review on the languages in the fields of language policy and language teaching.

Suitable for:

This project is suitable for students who have studied Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and/or Korean at UQ as well as students who are background/heritage speakers of the languages. Applicants should have strong analytical skills in English and organisational skills.

Primary Supervisor:

 

Dr Kayoko Hashimoto

Further info:

Please contact k.hashimoto@uq.edu.au for further information.