Participation: Contribute productively and thoughtfully to class discussion every day, bringing in your knowledge and your questions from assigned readings and other resources in your background.

15%

Presentations: Each student will present 2-3 papers about a particular type of sociolinguistic perception, contrasting the methods and findings in each. Presentation should elicit discussion from the class.

15%

Assignments:

70%

Complete Voices of Toronto Survey

5%

Ethnolect Features list

5%

CHOICE: Write up of comparison of 2-3 papers about a particular type of sociolinguistic perception OR Conduct and report a survey of media comments and kinds of judgments related to perception of ethnicity in speech

15%

Focus group Project

15%

Write-up of (some aspect of) the focus group results for the community

15%

Write-up of (some aspect of) the focus group results for an academic journal

15%