2023 Linguistics Student Conference

April 19, 2023
4:00-9:30 pm
Gruening 409
 
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Mendoza
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Postmethod language teaching: An alternative organizing principle for heritage language education

In this presentation, I attempt to apply Kumaravadiveluā€™s construct of ā€œpostmethodā€ language teaching (see 2001 paper in TESOL Quarterly) to heritage language education. I begin by arguing that other ā€œauthenticā€ approaches to language teaching like Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), and Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) do not align with the needs analysis of heritage language (HL) learners and communities. Then, I propose that applying Kumaravadiveluā€™s pedagogical principles of Particularity, Practicality, and Possibility can meet these needs while also raising teachersā€™ and studentsā€™ critical awareness about language ideologies. To illustrate with concrete practices and strategies, I propose three types of ethnographic exercise as postmethod pedagogy in the HL classroom: physical linguistic landscapes, online linguistic landscapes, and interactional analyses of family and friendsā€™ conversations and literacy practices. I explain why these activities meet the needs and learning outcomes that research has shown to be central to HL teaching, such as expanding studentsā€™ range of registers, facilitating textual literacy development, and equitably benefiting all members of a class with diverse proficiencies and profiles.

 

2023 Schedule of Events

Welcome  4:00 - 4:15pm
Session 1  4:15 - 5:30pm
Raquel Ream
Applied Linguistics (MA)

Outsider/Insider Collaboration: Working with a Maya community in developing an English course for tour guides

Alexandra Caccavo
Applied Linguistics (MA)

Providing adult English language learners with written tasks in a self-study CALL environmentā€”what happens?

Sooyoung Kang
Applied Linguistics (MA)

Staying Grounded: Challenges and insights from a Teacher Action Research

Wetherleigh Griffin
Linguistics (BA)

Majoring in Minecraft: Engaging ESL student in authentic interactions through virtual escape rooms


Keynote  5:40-6:40pm

Dr. Anna Mendoza

Postmethod language teaching: An alternative organizing principle for heritage language education


Session 2  6:45 - 8:00pm

John Ayodeji Odudele
Applied Linguistics (MA)

Overcoming racisim as a racialized ESL Teacher: A study towards critical anti-racist pedagogy

Matt Ford
Applied Linguistics (MA)

Investigating Teacher Emotions in a University ESL Writing Class

Dulce Villasenor
Linguistics (BA)

Mirror Images? Exploring bilingual identity of a Mexican-American father and American-Mexican daughter

Bryce Tasso
Linguistics (BA)

First-Person pronouns in Japanese: Pragmatics and Personality


Session 3  8:15 - 9:30pm

Mollie Messick
INDS (PhD)

Sustainability and Language Education: Toward Climate-Responsive Language Curriculum in the Circumpolar North

Nicole Dufour
Anthropology (PhD)

Communities of Practice and Discourses of ā€˜Dog Careā€™ in Arctic Distance Mushing

Morgan Reynolds
Applied Linguistics (MA)

ā€œI donā€™t listen to foreigner rapā€ Discourse Analysis of Japanese Rap Disses Against Mixed-Race Rappers

Brook Barton
Applied Linguistics (MA)

When the Shelf Breaks: Narratives of Deconversion in r/exmormon Posts