NCN Miniatura Grant

We’re delighted to share that Dr. Magdalena Walenta, leader of EMERGE, has been awarded an NCN Miniatura grant for her project “The effect of language (L1 vs. L2) on multimodal content processing by English-medium architecture students: an eye-tracking comparison across Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts.” Dr. Zuzanna Fuchs (University of Southern California), an EMERGE member, expert in eye-tracking, and co-author of the application, will serve as the U.S.-based co-researcher, providing equipment and technical expertise, with local support to be provided by Dr. Anna Nowak (Warsaw University of Technology) and Prof. Dan Pitera (University of Detroit Mercy). The study will investigate how architecture students process multimodal disciplinary content in English, using a visual-world eye-tracking task with relative clauses, supplemented by linguistic and working-memory measures, to compare real-time comprehension in L1 and L2 EMI contexts.