Language Matters
Language Matters is a language-research consortium at Syracuse University, which promotes, highlights, and disseminates language-based research and creates new synergies by bringing individuals and communities into regular scholarly conversations around language research and teaching.
What we do
The language one speaks shapes one’s personality, delineates identity, and embeds each person in a specific community. To inquire about language is to investigate human beings and the inherent properties that define their past, present, and future. By consciously reflecting upon words and where they position us, we expand our worldview and open our minds and hearts, fostering more welcoming, diverse, and inclusive communities.
LAC
How can studying in multiple languages improve communication, reduce prejudices, and promote inclusivity?
CUSE Speaks
How do diverse linguistic groups affect the shaping of languages and the health of individuals and the community?
Comfort Zones
How can analyzing language enhance national and global approaches to migration, healthcare, criminology, or cybersecurity?
PICS
How might artistic performances break down cultural and linguistic barriers and help with conflict resolution?
New.net(s)
How can creating digitally open borders revolutionize language learning, improve global communication, broaden cultural sensitivities, and strengthen international partnerships?
Latest Posts about Language Matters
PICS 2021 Watch party on the SU quad and virtually: Thursday, May 13 @ 9:45 p.m.
Featuring the release of six award-winning video performances created by Syracuse University students and staff. The PICS 2021 winning performances highlight the theme “Together-Apart.”
LM team welcomes new visiting scholar.
Language Matters team welcomes new visiting scholar, Christopher Hromalik.
PICS 2021
Call for Performance proposals now open! Topic: "Together Apart"
Megan Hu honored for research
SOURCE-funded Megan Hu was awarded the Chancellor's Citation for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and the LLL Undergraduate research prize.
PICS 2020 Winners
Allie Berger, Rebekah Burton, Jacob Gedetsis, Leopoldo González-Barajas, Ana Guerrero, Chenhui Liu, Yuxuan Luo, Liam McMonagle, Athena Myers, Seema Sureshkumar, Sahily Tamayo.
Conference and symposium presentations
SOURCE-funded student, Cayla Sharp’s work was presented and/or accepted for presentation in multiple venues in the form of posters or oral presentations.
New LAC Mellon Working Group
SU's LM team leads new Mellon Working Group around LAC with Colgate University, Cornell University, and Skidmore College.
Caroline Bennett awarded Undergraduate Research Prize
SOURCE-funded student, Caroline Bennett, awarded Undergraduate Research Prize.
SU's LM team wins research grant to extend LAC program
SU's LM team wins research grant to extend LAC program
Caroline Bennett to present research in London
SOURCE-funded student, Caroline Bennett, invited to present her research in London
Comfort Zones Roundtable Discussions
Three roundtable discussions were organized in spring 2020 with various faculty members and constituencies from across different disciplines in Syracuse University to discuss questions related to Comfort Zone: Language and Human Security.
Caroline Bennett to present at 2020 TALFL Conference
SOURCE-funded student, Caroline Bennett, was accepted to give an oral presentation of her research, "Navigating the Digital Landscape of Language Learning within the Classroom", at the 2020 TESOL / Applied Linguistics / Foreign Languages Conference at West Chester University. (* the conference has been postponed due to COVID-19)
Rosalind Weaver to present at 2020 TALFL Conference
SOURCE-funded student, Rosalind Weaver, was accepted to present her research at the 2020 TALFL Conference.
Rosalind Weaver at 41st Annual ALWC
SOURCE-funded student, Rosalind Weaver, presented her research at the 41st Annual ALWC.
Caroline Bennett presents at 41st Annual ALWC
SOURCE-funded student, Caroline Bennett, presented her research, "Contemporary Practices Around and Attitudes Towards Machine Translation in Language Instruction", in an oral presentation at the 41st Annual Applied Linguistics Winter Conference (ALWC) held at the University of Rochester. She was joined by seven other graduate and undergraduate students from SU.