Talking Turkish: Studying How Adults Best Learn a Second Language
5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
PSYCH Star Speaker: Maya C. Rose, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Doctoral Student in Psychology, CUNY
Maya Rose is a PhD Candidate in Educational Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY (advisor: Dr. Patricia Brooks). Her main line of research examines how specific learning tasks influence college students’ success in learning a new language.
Moderator: Dr. Peri Yuksel, Psychology
Learning a new language is difficult, yet some succeed at it. This talk will discuss how variations in practice tasks influence comprehension of Turkish nominal morphology at early stages of learning. Maya will discuss preliminary findings from her dissertation research in which college students (N = 157) were introduced to a Turkish miniature language via a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) protocol delivered via zoom.