Daidone, Lidster Receive Spencer Grant

Danielle Daidone, assistant teacher of Spanish, and Ryan Lidster, assistant teacher of Japanese, in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, belong to a group of scientists creating online devices to aid students get brand-new audios in 2nd language Spanish, French andJapanese The group was just recently granted a $50,000 Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant on Education to establish an online system that can be made use of at UNCW and past.

“With any kind of 2nd language, learning to interact efficiently includes discovering to make brand-new audio differences,” discussedLidster “For example, listeners need to be able to tell the difference between hablo and habló in Spanish (“I speak” vs “he/she spoke”), or in Japanese, between kaimasu and kaemasu (“will buy” vs “can buy”), and in running speech, this can be very demanding.”

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