OSU Conference on Linguistic Pedagogy. Jan 15-16th, 2010

7th Annual Martin Luther King Day Linguistics Symposium (MLK7)

OSU CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTIC PEDAGOGY

Program also available as a pdf file

Friday January 15 – Saturday January 16, 2010

The Ohio State University

Jennings Hall (1735 Neil Ave)

Please let us know if you plan to attend by emailing Brian Joseph. A $25 registration fee will go toward the cost of drinks and meals.

 

Friday January 15: (040 Jennings Hall)

 

1:20:   WELCOMING REMARKS

 

1:30  –  2:00: Nassira Nicola (University of Chicago), “Undergraduate Linguistics for Non-Linguists: Core and General Education as Public Outreach”

 

2:00  –  2:30: Robert Troyer (Western Oregon University), “Stylistics in the Literature Classroom:  Pragmatic Awareness in Hamlet and the Dorm”

 

2:30  –  3:00: Steven Hartman Keiser (Marquette University), “The linguistics classroom: an ideal site to promote quantitative reasoning across the university curriculum”

 

BREAK

 

3:30 – 5:00:  Keynote Speaker (155 Jennings Hall) -- Kirk Hazen (West Virginia University), “Teaching to the choir and beyond: Being overt with the foundations of science, linguistics, and 21st century America”

 

5:00 – 6:30  RECEPTION (122 Oxley Hall, across Neil Ave.)

 

Saturday January 16 (040 Jennings Hall)

 

Coffee, tea, bagels available from 8:30

 

9:15  –   9:45: Christopher Sams (Stephen F. Austin State University,  “Online Linguistics Instruction”

 

9:45  –  10:15: Kazuko Hiramatsu (University of Michigan-Flint), “Making Linguistics Relevant with Online Resources”

 

10:15 – 10:45: Bruce Anderson (Glendon College/York University), “Teaching Technology in an Undergraduate Linguistics Program”

 

BREAK

 

11:00 – 11:30: Beth Rapp Young (University of Central Florida), “Using Google to Teach English Grammar to Advanced Undergraduates”

 

11:30 – 12:00: Helen Riha (Oakland University), “Online Forums with Experts: An Innovative Way to Teach Sociolinguistics”

 

12:00 – 12:30: Lauren Squires & Robin Queen (University of Michigan), “Media Clips Collections: Creation and Application in the Linguistics Classroom”

 

 

LUNCH (040 Jennings Hall)

 

2:00 – 2:30: April Grotberg, Nassira Nicola, and Christina Weaver (University of Chicago), “The Problem of Problems:  Phonology Pedagogy for the Twenty-First Century”

 

2:30 – 3:00: David Bowie (University of Alaska Anchorage), “Notions of grammaticality among undergraduate linguistics students”

 

3:00 – 3:30: Marina Gorlach (Metropolitan State College of Denver), “Teaching Modern Linguistic Theories to Undergraduates”

 

 

BREAK

 

3:45 – 4:15: Stephanie A. Schlitz (Bloomsburg University), “Enhancing HEL with a Socio-historical Perspective: The London Project”

 

4:15 – 4:45: Terrell Morgan (Ohio State University), “Okra and Columbus:  An Object Lesson in Historical Linguistics”

 

4:45 – 5:15: Sharon Miriam Ross (Ohio State University), “Through the Looking Glass:  A Novel Perspective on Teaching Semantics and Pragmatics”

 

END OF CONFERENCE