On April 14th, 2016, twenty-two students presented their research and finals projects at the university's Academic Showcase. The topics of presentations ranged from education to politics. In total, 3 schools were represented at the poster session: the School of Education, the School of Public and International Affairs, and the General Education Program. Below is a list of presenters and their topics.
School of Education:
Ala’a Ghaith (TESOL)
Does Motivation Lead to Code-Switching?
Kaewkhwan Srisang (TESOL)
The effect of learning vocabulary
through a learner's preferred learning style
Somprach Nawaruan (TESOL)
Flexibility of Learners' Belief and their motivation about
Grammar Instruction after Being Expose to an alternative type of grammar
instruction
School of Public and International Affairs
Dil Kumar Deuja (TESOL)
The fluency of an introverted
person gets directly affected by the kind of people he is speaking with
Sihui
Shao (APLX)
A
case-study on the relationship between presonality and willingness to
communicate of a Chinese ESL studentSchool of Public and International Affairs
Ademola Onafuye (SPIA)
Insurgency and the Nigerian
Government
AnneMarie Gasparik
(SPIA)
Status of New Democracies Since
the 2011 Arab Spring
General Education Program
Murat Bakir (SPIA)
Russia and Turkey: A
Democratization Comparison
Daniel Okabe (SPIA)
Comparing South African Politics vs
Uganda Politics in relation to Uganda's recent 2016 elections and democracy in
both countries.
Michael Okuh (SPIA)
Debates
and discussions in the presidential primaries: A comparison of the sanders and
trump campaignsGeneral Education Program
Fariha Binte
Ashraf (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic Portfolio: Teluga
Manikanta Duddu
(GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic Portfolio:
Mongolian
Sumanth
Kudapa (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilio: Teluga
Humberto
Alejandro Lazo (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilio: Italian
Zeshanuddin
Mohammad (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfolio: Bengali
Jay
Kalpeshbhai Patel (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilo: Hindi
Khusbu
Rimal (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilio: Bengali
Jokhongir
Siddikov (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilio: Russian
Israt
Jahan Soniya (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfoilio: Nepali
Anudari Tsogtbayar
(GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic Portfolio:
Vietnamese
Barakat Yusuf (GEC: LING 105)
Ethnolinguistic
Portfolio: Spanish
For more information on our academic showcases, please see our webpage: http://www.viu.edu/wrmc/about-wrmc/events/2015-poster-sessions.html