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)

10:00amConference Welcome, Daily Goal Setting, and Reflection
Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
10:30amKeynote Address Moving Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries to SoTL as Scholarly Work
Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury
11:45amWorking Lunch: Exploring SoTL Themes for Linguistics
Facilitators: Faculty Learning Community on SoTL in Linguistics
1:15pmMid-Day Reflection
1:25p-2:45pSession 1
Session facilitators: Jessi Grieser and Lynsey Wolter
1:25pm1A: An introductory linguistics course for non-majors, centering social justice
1:45pm1B: Comics as a medium for public linguistics
2:05pm1C: Social media in the linguistic classroom: discussing appreciation vs appropriation
2:25pm1D: Gatekeeping, Hazing, or Rigor? The impact of teaching practices in theoretical syntax
2:45pmBreak
3:00p-4:00pSession 2
Session facilitators: Reed Blaylock & Wesley Y. Leonard
3:00pm2A: First principles and the first document: Syllabus analysis for introductory linguistics courses
3:20pm2B: Analytical Autoethnography: Centering Students’ Linguistic & Cultural Experiences in Assessment
3:40pm2C: Bringing Issues of Linguistic Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion into Focus through Linguistic Landscape Projects
4:00p-4:15pBreak
4:15p-5:15pSession 3
Session facilitators: Evan Bradley and Ann Bunger
4:15pm3A: Word Journals: using active, co-constructive assignments to broaden general interest linguistics
4:35pm3B: Rethinking the handout: Middle ground between readings and puzzles
4:55pm3C: On-line demonstration experiments as experiential learning
5:15p-6:00pEnd of Day Reflection
Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
6:00pmOptional Networking Reception with Participants of the Bridging fieldwork, corpus, and experimental methods to study sociolectal variation Workshop

Sunday (Day 2)

10:00amWelcome, Daily Goal Setting, and Reflection
Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
10:30amKeynote AddressLinguistics and Justice: What We Can Learn about the Teaching of Linguistics from Black Students’ Languages, Literacies, Identities, and Lived Experiences
Dr. April Baker-Bell
11:45amWorking Lunch: Advancing JEDI in Linguistics
Facilitators: Faculty Learning Community on SoTL in Linguistics
1:15pmMid-Day Reflection
1:25p-2:45pSession 4
Session facilitators: Kristin Denham and Kazuko Hiramatsu
1:25pm4A: Navigating microaggressions: Building inclusive spaces with tools grounded in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and speech-language pathology
1:45pm4B: Teaching Phonetics and Phonology to visually impaired and hard-of-hearing students in introductory Linguistics classes
2:05pm4C: Narrating a Path: Digital Humanities Tools in the Linguistics Classroom
2:25pm4D: Social changes and linguistic changes in Brazilian higher education
2:45pmBreak
3:00p-4:00pSession 5
Session facilitators: Ann Bunger and Lynsey Wolter
3:00pm5A: Syntactically Branching out Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Report on the Discovery Method
3:20pm5B: De-centering English with ‘language of the day’ in undergraduate linguistics
3:40pm5C: On reliability of assessment and the use of rubrics to assess writing in a linguistic classroom
4:00pmBreak
4:15p-5:15pSession 6
Session facilitators: Alison Elliott and Michal Temkin Martinez
4:15pm6A: Video Chat Exams in an Online Gen Ed Intro to Linguistics Course
4:35pm6B: Responding to students’ resistance to learning about linguistic diversity and justice in the linguistics classroom
4:55pm6C: Reimagining Introductory Linguistics through Raciolinguistics
5:15pmEnd of Conference Discussion and Reflection
Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez