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

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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)

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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)

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Morgan Reynolds
Applied Linguistics (MA)

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Brook Barton
Applied Linguistics (MA)

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