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Student Experiential Learning in a Day Camp Setting
Grant program: Teaching and Learning Development Grant (TLDG)
Grant recipient: Ashley Farris-Trimble, Department of Linguistics
Project team: Claire Moore-Cantwell, Department of Linguistics, and Danica Reid, research assistant
Timeframe: February 2018 to March 2019
Funding: $5880
Final report: View Ashley Farris-Trimble's final report (PDF)
Description: Our primary research question is how does hands-on research experience enhance student learning beyond classroom instruction? We plan to test this in the setting of small one-day camps for elementary school children (Little Linguists), organized and staffed by 51社区黑料students. This research aims to explore and identify student learning outcomes during these camps.
Questions addressed:
- What do students hope or expect to learn prior to the day camp?
- Do students apply theoretical linguistic concepts as they work with children during the camps?
- What do students perceive that they have learned after the day camp?
- Which aspects of the camp seemed to have the most promise for fostering student learning?
- How do changes made to the day camp design based on what is learned from previous offerings change what students learn?
Knowledge sharing: The practice of student experiential learning in a day camp setting could easily be extended to other departments across the university. Day camps provide opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience, to frame theoretical concepts for a different audience (children), and to engage with the local community. We hope to share our findings with other departments and units at a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) teaching event, and we will present our findings at the linguistics department poster session in the spring of 2019.
Farris-Trimble, A. & Reid, D. (2018, January). Little linguists: Teaching elementary schoolers to be language scientists. Presentation at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT.
Keywords: experiential learning, day camps, children, language acquisition, out-of-classroom experiences