About COLORS

The Mission

To promote interdisciplinary language research at UCF and with collaborations at partner institutions while serving the needs of language learners in our communities

To provide opportunities for teachers in training to develop a pedagogical skillset which will serve the needs of their future language students

COLORS News

January 2024

COLORS Principal Investigator (Christina Torres, Ph.D.) receives a Fulbright Early Career/Postdoctoral Award grant to collaborate on new COLORS services and research in collaboration with faculty at the University of Huelva (UHU) in Huelva, Spain.

  • Project Title: A Multiliteracies Approach for Telecollaborative Language Teacher Training and Service Learning
  • For more information about UHU’s Contemporary Thinking and Innovation for Social Development Research Center project: Multiliteracies for Adult At-Risk Learners of Additional Languages (MULTILITS), please see their website: https://multilits.eu/en/presentation

August 2023

  • COLORS Principal Investigator (Christina Torres, Ph.D.) transitions from Lecturer to Assistant Professor at UCF.

September 2021

  • A collaboration with Seminole State College brings students from their English language programs into COLORS Talking Point sessions.

September 2020

  • A collaboration with Instituto de Enseñansa Superior Aguilares in Argentina brought pre-service English language educators to COLORS Talking Point sessions.

September 2019

  • A collaboration with University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy brought administrative personnel to COLORS Speaking with a Purpose sessions.
  • A collaboration with Colégio Anglo Americano and Colégio Monjolo in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil brought English learners to COLORS online English services.
  • The Grammar in Writing (GiW) service for international graduate students at UCF begins in collaboration with the College of Graduate Studies and the University Writing Center.

February 2019

  • Bate-Papo, online Portuguese conversation practice began.

June 2024

COLORS Repository Updated for Collaboration with University of Huelva, Spain

  • Principal Investigator: Christina Torres, Ph.D.
  • Co-investigator: Kerry Purmensky, Ph.D.
  • IRB STUDY: MOD00005560Project Title: A Multiliteracies Approach for Telecollaborative Language Teacher Training and Service Learning

GiW Data supports publication in Higher Learning Research Communications

  • Torres, C., & Saribas, E. (2024). Instructional Perspectives to Providing Corrective Feedback for Advanced Second Language Writers. Higher Learning Research Communications, 14.
  • DOI:10.18870/hlrc.v14i0.1545

January 2024

COLORS Repository Data Supports Research

  • GiW Tutor Perceptions
  • Christina Torres, Ph.D.
  • Elif Saribas, MA TESOL
  • IRB STUDY: 00006360

May 2022

COLORS Principal Investigator Graduates with Ph.D.

September 2021

COLORS Repository Update with New Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Christina Torres, MA TESOL
  • Co-investigator: Kerry Purmensky, Ph.D.
  • IRB STUDY: MOD00002242

January 2021

COLORS Repository Data Supports an MA Thesis

May 2020

COLORS Repository Data Supports Ph.D. Research

  • A comparison of STEM vs. non-STEM in the gains from grammar tutoring in academic writing
  • Caoyuan Ma, Ph.D. Education/TESOL
  • IRB STUDY#00001469

January 2020

COLORS Repository Data Supports M.A. Thesis

September 2019

COLORS Repository formally begins

  • Quantitative and qualitative data from services are gathered and can be shared with UCF IRB protocol.
  • Marcella Farina, Ph.D.
  • IRB STUDY#00000834

April 2019

First COLORS data set issued

  • Call and Form-focused Feedback on Writing Using a Think-aloud Protocol
  • Heather Vazquez, MA TESOL
  • IRB STUDY#00000354