Projects

 

Title: Support for course development within the Cornell Swedish language program

PI: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
Graduate student: Megan Eaton
Undergraduate students: Ålden I. Coots, Kateri Krantz-Odendahl

Sponsor: Swedish Institute

Project presentation: Eaton, M. & Alm, C. O. (2009, October). Culture course development (with a multimedia collection and free online access). [Title translated from Swedish.] Conference for North American University Teachers of Swedish, University of Washington, Seattle.

Title: Development of Web Audio Lab oral study materials for introductory Swedish 

PI: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
Graduate student: Linda Heimisdottir
Undergraduate students: Kateri Krantz-Odendahl, Ålden I. Coots

Sponsor: Consortium of language teaching and learning

Title: Dataset of Swedish Language Learning and Teaching

The goal of the project is to create a dataset for research on Swedish language teaching and 
learning with the aim to investigate and improve teaching and assessment methods,  
educational and computational learning tools, instruction considering individual learning strategies, 
as well as explore language and cultural attainment of learners of Swedish in academic research.

IRB protocol ID#: 08-08-037.

Title: Novel textbook and multimedia workbook materials for introductory Swedish

PI: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm

Sponsor: Consortium of language teaching and learning
Link to materials: SWED 1210 Materials (pilot modules are divided into sections)

Title: The Image of the Viking in the 21st Century

PI: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm
Spring 2009, graduate student: Danielle Cudmore

Sponsor: Cornell University Institute for European Studies

Forthcoming conference presentation: Alm, C. O. (forthcoming 2010, March). Gods as kids in The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok. Accepted for presentation at the conference on New Directions in Medieval Scandinavian Studies, Fordham University, New York.