{"id":6585,"date":"2019-07-09T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:53:09","slug":"sls-bama-student-victoria-lee-presents-at-spring-2019-undergraduate-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/sls-bama-student-victoria-lee-presents-at-spring-2019-undergraduate-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"SLS BAMA Student Victoria Lee Presents at Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victoria Lee, a student in the BAMA pathway program in SLS, presented her research in the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase (Undergraduate Research and Creative Work) on May 3, 2019 at the East-West Center.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victoria’s presentation, “Tracking Potential Attrition in a Child SecondLanguage Learner\u2019s Phonological Development after a Change in Learning Environment”, was the culmination of several semesters of research and an award from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).\u00a0 The purpose of the study was to examine whether second language (L2) attrition would occur in “K”, a L2-English 8-year-old child whose first language (L1) was Japanese.\u00a0 K spent seven months in Hawaii, and then returned to Japan.\u00a0 Victoria looked at the short-term changes in K\u2019s production of two minimal consonantal pairs in English that are not contrastive in Japanese (\/l\/-\/\u0279\/, \/b\/-\/v\/). Findings from the study showed no obvious evidence of attrition in K\u2019s production over the five months after his return to Japan, but later studies could look at K\u2019s production a year or two after his return for evidence of attrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nVictoria Lee, a student in the BAMA pathway program in SLS, presented her research in the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Showcase (Undergraduate Research and Creative Work) on May 3, 2019 at the East-West Center.   Victoria’s presentation, “Tracking Potential Attrition in a…\n<\/div>\n