Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein has announced plans to establish a named professorship in honor of Dr. Thomas Tam, a former CUNY trustee, CUNY alumnus and prominent Asian-American educator who passed away on Feb. 27 at age 62. During a memorial service at the University’s Asian American/Asian Research Institute on March 9, the Chancellor said the Thomas … Read more
Memorial Service A Celebration of the Life of Dr. Thomas Tam Sunday, March 9, 2008 2:30PM to 5PM 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan As his final parting gift to AAARI, Dr. Tam created the Dr. Thomas M.S. Tam Foundation for financial contributions that will go towards the Institute. … Read more
To investigate the interaction between speech recognition dictation technology and the use of language by non-native speakers of English, several language minority students from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds were asked to use speech recognition dictation software to orally compose a series of college level writing tasks. The interactions were videotaped and transcribed; the transcriptions include the … Read more
