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This project is based on a practical need of Rutgers students of German (both first-year and continuing students) to have additional learning tools targeting improving language accuracy. While there exists a plethora of offline and online-based commercial and free sources offering grammar and vocabulary exercises, there are several issues that limit their applicability in the typical educational setting at Rutgers. These issues are: idiosyncratic nature of many of these tools, their quality, and the vast disconnect between their goals and features and the requirements and expectations in the German language sequence at Rutgers.
The goal of this Aresty research project is to fill this gap and address these problems. The final product of the project is a platform-independent information source (website) that contains a unique set of grammar and vocabulary exercises targeting specifically students of German at Rutgers. The exercises will be interactive and will be used by both students and instructors.
The project is truly interdisciplinary and will require collaboration of two RAs from different fields. The primary task of one RA will be developing the set of exercises under the guidance of the PI. The primary task of the second RA will be to develop, under the guidance of the PI, a simple, solid, scalable, transferable and platform-independent information resource (website).
In completing this project, the research assistants will develop their abilities to collaborate over the STEM-Humanities divide. They will develop important research skills in working with language and technology.
The nature of the project reveals a high degree of transferability: upon its completion, similar projects targeting other languages can be done using the web framework developed in the project offered.
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