CoSTaSiL 2023 Program

Conference on Scholarly Teaching in Linguistics
July 8 – 9, 2023
UMass Amherst

Friday (Day 0)

• Pre-conference planning meeting (organizing committee only, 10:00am – 5:00pm)
• Drop-in session for conference presenters (check your pre-conference email)

Saturday (Day 1)

10:00am	Conference Welcome, Daily Goal Setting, and Reflection Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
10:30am	Keynote Address – Moving Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries to SoTL as Scholarly Work Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury
11:45am	Working Lunch: Exploring SoTL Themes for Linguistics Facilitators: Faculty Learning Community on SoTL in Linguistics
1:15pm	Mid-Day Reflection
1:25p-2:45p	Session 1 Session facilitators: Jessi Grieser and Lynsey Wolter
1:25pm	1A: An introductory linguistics course for non-majors, centering social justice
1:45pm	1B: Comics as a medium for public linguistics
2:05pm	1C: Social media in the linguistic classroom: discussing appreciation vs appropriation
2:25pm	1D: Gatekeeping, Hazing, or Rigor? The impact of teaching practices in theoretical syntax
2:45pm	Break
3:00p-4:00p	Session 2 Session facilitators: Reed Blaylock & Wesley Y. Leonard
3:00pm	2A: First principles and the first document: Syllabus analysis for introductory linguistics courses
3:20pm	2B: Analytical Autoethnography: Centering Students’ Linguistic & Cultural Experiences in Assessment
3:40pm	2C: Bringing Issues of Linguistic Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion into Focus through Linguistic Landscape Projects
4:00p-4:15p	Break
4:15p-5:15p	Session 3 Session facilitators: Evan Bradley and Ann Bunger
4:15pm	3A: Word Journals: using active, co-constructive assignments to broaden general interest linguistics
4:35pm	3B: Rethinking the handout: Middle ground between readings and puzzles
4:55pm	3C: On-line demonstration experiments as experiential learning
5:15p-6:00p	End of Day Reflection Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
6:00pm	Optional Networking Reception with Participants of the Bridging fieldwork, corpus, and experimental methods to study sociolectal variation Workshop

Sunday (Day 2)

10:00am	Welcome, Daily Goal Setting, and Reflection Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
10:30am	Keynote Address – Linguistics and Justice: What We Can Learn about the Teaching of Linguistics from Black Students’ Languages, Literacies, Identities, and Lived Experiences Dr. April Baker-Bell
11:45am	Working Lunch: Advancing JEDI in Linguistics Facilitators: Faculty Learning Community on SoTL in Linguistics
1:15pm	Mid-Day Reflection
1:25p-2:45p	Session 4 Session facilitators: Kristin Denham and Kazuko Hiramatsu
1:25pm	4A: Navigating microaggressions: Building inclusive spaces with tools grounded in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and speech-language pathology
1:45pm	4B: Teaching Phonetics and Phonology to visually impaired and hard-of-hearing students in introductory Linguistics classes
2:05pm	4C: Narrating a Path: Digital Humanities Tools in the Linguistics Classroom
2:25pm	4D: Social changes and linguistic changes in Brazilian higher education
2:45pm	Break
3:00p-4:00p	Session 5 Session facilitators: Ann Bunger and Lynsey Wolter
3:00pm	5A: Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method
3:20pm	5B: De-centering English with ‘language of the day’ in undergraduate linguistics
3:40pm	5C: On reliability of assessment and the use of rubrics to assess writing in a linguistic classroom
4:00pm	Break
4:15p-5:15p	Session 6 Session facilitators: Alison Elliott and Michal Temkin Martinez
4:15pm	6A: Video Chat Exams in an Online Gen Ed Intro to Linguistics Course
4:35pm	6B: Responding to students’ resistance to learning about linguistic diversity and justice in the linguistics classroom
4:55pm	6C: Reimagining Introductory Linguistics through Raciolinguistics
5:15pm	End of Conference Discussion and Reflection Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez