Research and Development
The goals of LinguaPalooza are:
Create an extracurricular language learning program to teach and foster self-regulated lifelong learning skills and guide learners to use their language in the real world
Create a sustainable program that can be repeated year after year
Create an adaptable program that can provide short- and long-term research opportunities to students and faculty
Find out more here about how we are reaching these goals.
Results from Initial Launch (2022-2023)
LinguaPalooza was initially developed in Fall of 2022 as an internal program to meet the goals of the Center for Language Studies. A small pilot program was run that semester followed by a full contest in Winter 2023. We saw positive indicators in student reflections for development of self-regulated learning habits, growth towards lifelong language learning, building of connections with target language speakers, as well as increase in willingness to communicate and increased intercultural awareness or competence.
Interested in doing research with us?
LinguaPalooza was designed to allow for ongoing research. If you are interesting in participating in this research, please reach out to us with your ideas!