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Mentor Areas

  • Language and education
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Participant/Observation
  • Qualitative Research Methods

Description:

Students will assist with building a database of languages and communicative practices in immigrant communities in Philadelphia and in the agencies that serve those populations. Undergraduate research assistants will gather and compile this information by interviewing second-year master's students who have been doing research in these agencies. Our goal is to support these agencies by tapping into and documenting community knowledge, illuminating the language resources that can support their translation and other communication needs.

Preferred Qualifications

General interest in language and multilingual immigrant communities in Philadelphia. 

Details:

Preferred Student Year

First-year, Second-Year, Junior, Senior

Academic Term

Fall

I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).

Volunteer

Yes

Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.

Paid

No

Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.

Work Study

Yes

Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.

Researcher