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CoBiVa Awarded NEH Grant

Posted: April 18, 2023 4:00:00 PM CDT

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On Tues. Apr. 18, 2023, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (UTRGV, Project Director/Principal Investigator (PI)), Dr. Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona, co-PI), and Dr. Ryan Bessett (University of California San Diego, co-PI) a Humanities Collections and References Resource (HCRR) Implementation grant for their project entitled “Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Preserving, Expanding, and...

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By: Katherine O'Donnell Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Projects, Research

Carolina DeAnda earns Distinguished Scholar Award for Poster at Engaged Scholar Symposium

Posted: April 22, 2022 12:00:00 AM CDT

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On April 22, 2022, Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award for her poster entitled 'Celebrating Language Variation in RGV Classrooms' at the Engaged Scholar Symposium on Thurs. Apr. 21. This poster builds on our March AAAL 2022 presentation. This poster describes the process of planning, designing, and creating online teaching modules based on the CoBiVa. Each teaching module includes background information on the topic, links to resources, an explanation of its...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Research, Events, Projects

CoBiVa on Citizen Sociolinguistics Panel at AAAL 2022

Posted: March 21, 2022 5:00:00 PM CDT

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At our first in-person conference in years, CoBiVa traveled to the 2022 meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Christoffersen and undergarduate student Ms. Carolina DeAnda presented "Citizen Sociolinguistics at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Community-Based, Community-Driven Sociolinguistic Corpus with Resources for the Public" on a panel on citizen sociolinguistics. The CoBiVa is a part of citizen sociolinguistics (and...

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By: Katie Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Research, Projects

Special Issue on Bilingual Pedagogy at UTRGV

Posted: January 1, 2022 5:00:00 PM CST

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In December, 2021, Dr. Katherine Christoffersen together with M.A. student Ms.Kimberly Regalado published an article entitled "Toda lengua es válida aquí en esta clase: Translanguaging pedagogy and critical language awareness in sociolinguistics classes on the U.S.-Mexico border" in the Journal of Bilingual Education Research and Instruction. This article is a part of a special issue organized by the Center of Bilingual Studies (CBS)...

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By: Katie Christoffersen

Category: Research

Congratulations to Carolina DeAnda for her Engaged Scholar and Artist Award

Posted: December 3, 2021 12:00:00 PM CST

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Ms. Carolina DeAnda was awarded an Engaged Scholar and Artist Award for Spring 2022 entitled "Celebrating Linguistic Variation in RGV Classrooms." Ms. DeAnda will be creating teaching materials based on the CoBiVa. These exercises and activities will be added to the CoBiVa website. We are very excited about her project, as it will help teachers to use the CoBiVa in classes, thereby increasing the awareness and appreciation for linguistic variation. Ms. DeAnda presented the...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Projects, Announcements

White Paper, Handbook & Resources for Creating Sociolinguistic Corpora

Posted: November 17, 2021 12:00:00 PM CST

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As a part of the National Endowment of Humanities project "Bilingual Voices in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Dr. Bessett, Dr. Carvalho and I wrote a white paper on our findings on technologically-aided transcription methods for bilingual sociolinguistic corpora. This white paper entitled "Technologically-Aided Transcription Methods for Sociolinguistic Corpora: Findings, Resources, and Considerations" details the project from beginning to end including links to resources and products created...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Research, Projects, Technologically-Aided Transcription

CoBiVa at LASSO 2021

Posted: October 1, 2021 9:00:00 AM CDT

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This year's LASSO 2021 Virtual Conference included two presentations related to the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) and presented by three faculty and five students. First, Dr. Katherine Christoffersen, Ms. Kimberly Regalado, and Ms. Carolina DeAnda presented "Learning sociolinguistics en dos idiomas: Translangaging pedagogy and critical language awareness in university level courses" on Friday, Sept. 24. This presentation analyzed how students responded to a translanguaging...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Events, Research, Technologically-Aided Transcription

Speed and Ease of Use for Technologically Aided Transcription Methods

Posted: September 10, 2021 2:00:00 PM CDT

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During Spring 2021, we tested out 2 different transcription methods (Microsoft Stream and ExpressScribe) with students in internship style corpus development classes at UTRGV and UA. We here report the findings of both the speed and ease of use of these methods, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Based on preliminary findings on speed and ease of use during a pilot study with research assistants and evaluations of accuracy, SpeechNotes was no longer considered a...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Projects, Technologically-Aided Transcription, Research

Congratulations to Aubrey Villanueva, Starting MA in Linguistics at UC Boulder

Posted: August 1, 2021 5:00:00 PM CDT

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Congratulations to Ms. Aubrey Villanueva, UTRGV alum and former CoBiVa research assistant, who is starting her first semester at the University of Colorado Boulder MA Linguistics program! Ms. Aubrey Villanueva completed her BA in English with a concentration in Linguistics and minor in Legal Studies and graduated magna cum laude in 2020 from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Aubrey is a proud native of the Rio Grande Valley. During her time at UTRGV, she contributed to the...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements

Congratulations to Kimberly Regalado, Sustainability Fellowship Recipient

Posted: July 1, 2021 5:00:00 PM CDT

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Congratulations to Kimberly Regalado, a Sustainability Fellowship recipient for her thesis project entitled "Sustaining la Voz del Valle" (Sustaining the Voice of the Valley)! Kimberly Regalado is a first generation college graduate from UTRGV with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in English as a Second Language. She is currently a student in the M.A. English Linguistics program at UTRGV. She worked as a research assistant during Spring and Summer 2021 with the Center...

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By: Katie Christoffersen

Category: Events, Announcements

Summer 2021 CoBiVa Team

Posted: June 1, 2021 5:00:00 PM CDT

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We are so thankful for our amazing CoBiVa team that has been working with us on the continued elaboration of the corpus, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities. We have been fortunate to continue to work with Ms. Elsa Magaña and Ms. Mayte Vega Mudy, and this summer, three new research assistants have joined the team. Learn a little about our wonderful Summer 2021 RAs below: Carolina De Anda is double majoring in...

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By: Katie Christoffersen

Category: Events, Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements

Revising Stream Transcripts to WEBVTT with R

Posted: May 1, 2021 5:00:00 PM CDT

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During our project, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities, Dr. Ryan Bessett, Dr. Ana Carvalho, and myself (Dr. Katherine Christoffersen) tested several technologically-aided transcription methods. We eventually found that Stream auto-generated transcripts were preferable based on accuracy, speed, and ease of use. While Stream generated transcripts with timestamps, it did not create the precise WEBVTT format required for time-alignment and clickable transcripts on the...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Research, Projects, Technologically-Aided Transcription

CoBiVa at Virtual AAAL 2021

Posted: April 1, 2021 5:00:00 PM CDT

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CoBiVa was represented at the 2021 virtual convening of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, which took place from Friday March 19 through Tuesday March 23. Maddie (Madeline) Hernandez presented her project entitled "Virtual community engagement & applied linguistics: The impact of creating digital resources for the public" at a live roundtable session. There was a lively and active discussion about this work, created collaboratively with Freddy (Jose) Jimenez. Aubrey...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Events, Technologically-Aided Transcription, Research, Announcements

Accuracy of Technologically-Aided Transcription Methods

Posted: March 15, 2021 3:00:00 PM CDT

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Following our review of technologically-aided transcription methods and preliminary analysis of speed and ease of use, we analyzed the accuracy of two such those methods: auto-generated transcription (Microsoft Stream) and audio from speakers (SpeechNotes). This is part of the National Endowment of the Humanities grant-funded project "Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Technology-Enhanced Transcription and Community Engaged Scholarship." The auto-generated...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements, Research, Projects

Engaged Scholar Virtual Showcase Fall 2020

Posted: October 25, 2020 5:00:00 PM CDT

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This year’s Engaged Scholar Symposium at UTRGV was hosted virtually October 21-23, 2020. Our Engaged Scholar & Artist Award awardees Ms. Madeline (Maddie) Hernández and Mr. José (Freddy) Jiménez were live presenters on Fri. Oct 23rd. Their presentation entitled “Creating Digital Resources About Languages in the RGV and Studying Their Impact” was their second academic presentation about their project. ' In their...

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By: Ms. Madeline Hernández

Category: Events, Announcements, Projects

CoBiVa Spark Pages

Posted: October 10, 2020 3:00:00 PM CDT

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As a part of the Engaged Scholar & Artist Award entitled "Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact," Ms. Madeline Hernández created two different Adobe Spark pages about the CoBiVa. The Spark pages are explain the project to community members and those outside of the field of sociolinguistics. An Adobe Spark is a presentation platform that can be viewed by scrolling down the page. This platform was chosen as it was an ideal...

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By: Ms. Madeline Hernández

Category: Projects, Announcements

UTRGV at LASSO 2020 Virtual Conference

Posted: September 28, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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During this year's LASSO 2020 Virtual Conference, three different groups of students and researchers from UTRGV connected to the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa) presented. First, our Engaged Scholar & Artist Award awardees Ms. Madeline Hernández and Mr. José Jiménez did a phenomenal job presenting at their first ever academic conference. Their presentation entitled "Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact"...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements, Research, Projects

Preliminary Analysis of Speed & Ease of Use of Technologically-Aided Transcription Methods

Posted: September 25, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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After the testing transcription methods trials in the Fall, the research team performed a preliminary analysis of the findings, in particular the speed and ease of use for each of the transcription methods: ExpressScribe, SpeechNotes, and Stream. Speed We tabulated the overall average speed of each transcription method over the course of the four interview audios by each research assistant (RA). Certain RAs (such as student E) took more time than others who were quicker across the board (such...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Technologically-Aided Transcription

ESAA Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact

Posted: September 1, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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Congratulations to Ms. Madeline Hernández and Mr. José Jiménez who have been awarded the prestigious Engaged Scholar & Artists Award by UTRGV for their project Digital Resources for the Public: Virtual Community Engagement and its Impact. They will be working on this project during 2020-2021, and it's a great fit for our current situation. The purpose of this research is bifold: 1) to create digital materials/resources based on the research of the...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Projects, Research, Announcements

Testing Technologically Aided Transcription- Training & Methods

Posted: August 21, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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During July, the PI and co-PIs on the project, funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities, met often to determine the design and organization of the trials for the transcription methods. The PI and co-PIs met worked with six (6) research assistants (RAs). The three (3) students from the University of Arizona (UA) were all PhD students, while the three (3) students from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) included: two students who completed their BA and were starting...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements, Technologically-Aided Transcription

Summer 2020 CoBiVa Team

Posted: August 4, 2020 5:30:00 PM CDT

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This summer, we are so thankful for our amazing CoBiVa team, funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities. Our 4 wonderful research assistants from Spring 2020 stayed on with us, and we added 4 new research assistants to the team! Learn a little about our wonderful new RAs below: Madeline (Maddie) Hernandez is an undergraduate English major with a concentration in Linguistics. She is currently in her last year and plans to graduate Spring 2021 and continue to a...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Announcements

Blog Post

Posted: July 10, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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In this blog post, we further review the features of Stream, SpeechNotes and ExpressScribe, which we chose for further testing. (Refer to previous blog post for details on the other 27 options and our process for this decision.) We chose three different technologically-aided transcription methods: Stream, SpeechNotes, and ExpressScribe. We further explain these below. Stream Stream is part of the Microsoft Suite, and many universities have access to this software. To use Stream, you first...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements

Bilingual Technologically Aided Transcription Methods

Posted: June 26, 2020 4:00:00 PM CDT

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As a first step in our research project on technologically-aided transcription methods, the research team reviewed 27 different technologically aided transcription methods. Due to our purposes and those of the NEH grant, we needed to fulfill two major criteria: It needed to work with both Spanish and English It needed be sustainable, meaning it was open-source or free to us at our institutions. Of the 27 transcription methods reviewed, 21 had the ability to work with both Spanish...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements

CoBiVa in the News

Posted: June 8, 2020 10:00:00 AM CDT

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On Sunday June 6, the CoBiVa was featured in the Brownsville Herald! We're very thankful to Ms. Erin Sheridan and The Brownsville Herald for the article, which made the front page. We're very excited about the opportunity to share with the community about the beauty and value of code-switching and bilingualism! The news article covered the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) grant awarded to Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (project...

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By: Katherine Christoffersen

Category: Research, Announcements

CoBiVa Awarded NEH Grant

Posted: May 20, 2012 5:00:00 PM CDT

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On Tues. Apr. 7, 2020, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Dr. Katherine Christoffersen (UTRGV, Project Director/Principal Investigator (PI), Dr. Ana Carvalho (University of Arizona, co-PI), and Dr. Ryan Bessett (UTRGV, co-PI) a Humanities Collections and References Resource grant for their project entitled “Bilingual Voices in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands” in the amount of $59,975. This multi-site project will document language in the Rio Grande...

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By: Katie Christoffersen & Ryan Bessett

Category: Projects, Research, Technologically-Aided Transcription, Announcements

Our Spring 2020 CoBiVa Team

Posted: April 27, 2010 3:00:00 PM CDT

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Join us in welcoming our wonderful research assistants who have been working hard to make progress on the Corpus Bilingüe del Valle (CoBiVa). Read below to learn a bit more about our Spring 2020 CoBiVa Team. Rene Cabrera Ríos is an undergraduate student in his last semester in his BA in English with a concentration in linguistics. His is interested in sociolinguistic research and the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. He plans to start the MA...

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By: Katie Christoffersen

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