Collaborations
Collaboration with Screevo
The IMS is collaborating with Screevo, a start-up headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Rome. People learn languages to open doors: doors to new cultures, deeper connections, and endless opportunities. That’s why Screevo created Heero.me, designed to function as an AI-powered friend that supports students in their language practice by engaging them in conversations tailored to their lives and passions. Available on both iOS and Android, Heero offers instruction in five languages and 17 distinct accents. What sets Heero apart is its ability to automatically understand users’ interests and maintain lively, engaging conversations that ensure consistent practice and a truly immersive learning experience. The IMS is excited to be conducting research on this innovative educational app.
Partnership with HaBilNet
The IMS is a partner with The Harmonious Bilingualism Network, HaBilNet, a philanthropic foundation in Belgium whose mission is to support the well-being of bilinguals and their families ( https://www.habilnet.org)
The director of HaBilNet, Dr. Annick De Houwer, and the faculty director of the IMS, Dr. Lourdes Ortega have designed and co-organized two invitational colloquia where junior and senior researchers of bilingualism met to share expertise and experiences working with multilingual children and families. HaBilNet1 took place in La Hulpe, Belgium, on May 24-25, 2018. HaBilNet2 took place in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 12-14, 2022.
Collaboration with Legal English Program at Georgetown Law School
The IMS is collaborating with the Legal English Program at the Georgetown Law School to support the education of international and domestic multilingual lawyers. As part of this collaboration, Linguistics graduate students have conducted research in the Legal English Program.
Recent dissertations as an output of this colloration:
Bradford Salen, in-progress
Rostros Del Río
The IMS supported the collection of videographic interviews with remote Indigenous communities, an amazing project undertaken by Georgetown alumnus Jeff Wong and his colleague Henry Maillet involving a boat expedition along the 1,300 km or 800 miles of the Paraguay River to create the first Guaraní-Spanish bilingual corpus. Check out the the documentary teaser and their story on this webpage .
Teacher Pipeline Resources for Dual-Language Immersion in the U.S.
The IMS collaborated with the DCLIP on a study of teacher pipeline resources for dual-language immersion in the United States.
Research team: Erin Fell, Vashti Lee, Valentina Michelotti, and Malik Stevenson
