{"id":10,"date":"2024-09-04T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:05:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SynTeach is a multi-institution, multi-national project looking at how syntax is taught at institutions of higher learning in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.<\/p>\n<h5>Collaborators<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/cultures-languages\/people\/1707\/bailey-laura\">Laura Bailey<\/a>\u00a0is a senior lecturer at the University of Kent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bronwynbjorkman.net\/\">Bronwyn Bjorkman<\/a>\u00a0is an associate professor at Queen&#8217;s University.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kirbyconrod.com\/\">Kirby Conrod<\/a>\u00a0is an assistant professor at Swarthmore College.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/fsya\/aboutus\/staff\/directory\/lightcaitl-1.shtml\">Caitl Light<\/a>\u00a0is an academic advisor at Loyola University Chicago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Project phases<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Pilot survey<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>complete<\/em>): an online survey of instructors and students (present and former) who have taught or taken syntax; aimed at exploring peoples&#8217; attitudes and experiences to inform future phases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Program survey<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>complete<\/em>): a survey of degree-granting institutions in the US, UK, and Canada looking at program requirements and course offerings of undergraduate and graduate degrees in linguistics, comparing syntax to other subfields.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instructor survey<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>in analysis<\/em>): an online survey of instructors (present and former) who have taught syntax, aimed at exploring instructors&#8217; attitudes, experiences, and teaching practices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Student survey<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>in progress<\/em>): an online survey of students in syntax classes; will include multiple components.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus group interviews<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>in progress<\/em>): an ethnographic exploration of instructors, students, and scholars of syntax focusing on experiences in teaching and learning.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SynTeach is a multi-institution, multi-national project looking at how syntax is taught at institutions of higher learning in the United States, the United Kingdom, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38130,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/synteach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}