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

5. Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.

Project title: 

Eye tracking in bilingualism research with less-commonly researched languages.

Hours of engagement & delivery mode

4 weeks (Monday 26 June – Friday 21 July 2023)

Hours of engagement: 20 hours/week

Candidates will be required to be on-campus for weekly meetings.

Description:

This project examines how learners of Japanese process sentences incrementally using web-based eye-tracking.

Eye-tracking of the visual world paradigm is a widely used method in psycholinguistics, offering millisecond-precise information about how language users orient their visual attention as they process language. This measure drives advances in our understanding of second-language sentence processing. More recently, researchers increasingly turn to web-based methods for collecting experimental data. This project

assesses the utility of web-based experimentation as an alternative to lab-based eye-tracking.

In this project, scholars will be involved in developing some of the initial stages of eye-tracking research. In Winter Research (2023) in particular, a scholar will work on stimuli development and stimulus-presentation design

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Scholar gain hands on experience in designing and conducting psycholinguistic experiments.

Suitable for:

Undergraduate 2nd-4th year students, honours’ students or 1st-year postgraduate students with a background in linguistics, applied linguistics, Japanese or related majors. Preferences will be given to those who are interested in doing bilingual research in languages other than English.

Primary Supervisor:

Dr. Sanako Mitsugi

Further info:

For initial enquiries, please contact Dr. Sanako Mitsugi via email.