21.1908, Qs: Looking for Participants for an ESL Study

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Subject: 21.1908, Qs: Looking for Participants for an ESL Study

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Date: 18-Apr-2010
From: Nadya Dich < nld26 at cornell.edu >
Subject: Looking for Participants for an ESL Study
 

	
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:19:34
From: Nadya Dich [nld26 at cornell.edu]
Subject: Looking for Participants for an ESL Study

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Dear LINGUIST community,

I am currently conducting an online research project aimed at 
investigating how certain properties of native language orthography 
influence the ways individuals spell in English as a second language 
(ESL). More specifically, I am interested in native speakers of Danish, 
Italian and Russian who currently live in Denmark, Italy and Russia and 
have intermediate to advanced ESL proficiency. In particular, I am 
interested in testing *undergraduate and graduate students* of various 
specializations.

I would like to invite everyone who qualifies to participate and also
kindly ask the readers to forward this information to qualified students
who might be interested in participating. Please find a brief description
of the study below:

- This is an online study that can be completed from any computer with
high-speed internet.
- The study consists of 5 spelling tasks and a quick survey and takes
about 35 minutes.
- Every 15th participant wins a prize: a yearly subscription to an
educational English language magazine (e.g. National Geographic)
- The study website is: http://languagetest.dyndns.org/ad.htm

Should you need additional information about the project, please feel 
free to contact me at nld26 at cornell.edu. 

Thank you for your help!

Nadya Dich
PhD candidate
Deptartment of Human Development
Cornell University 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition




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