LIN 1256: Advanced Language Variation & Change
Sociophonetics of Perception

Course Description * Schedule * Reading * Assessment

Presentation Guidelines

An integral part of this seminar will be your presentations of recently published research . It is essential that you carefully read (the relevant parts of) the articles you are presenting, of course. Additionally, all are welcome to read all the articles, and especially those that will be relevant to your project!

I leave you a good deal of leeway in how to organize your presentations, but here are some elements you should include.

1. First, please email the class (via Quercus) 2 questions the day before your presentation (give us 24 hours to think about them). These should be questions that you see the author trying to answer.
2. Also 24 hours ahead, please email and let me know how long you expect your presentation to take. Anywhere from 10-30 minutes is reasonable.
3. You may wish to open your presentation by giving us time to discuss these questions, or you may want to present your information directly.
4. Presentation should include a summary outline or paragraph that will be EASY TO REFER BACK TO. This should be posted in Quercus and/or handed out to the class. Send me a PDF to post in Quercus.
5. I encourage you to include discussion or brainstorming activities or other ways that the rest of the class can participate.

You should also

• draw connections to previous readings
  • What does this article support? contradict? present a different side of? further explain?...
• provide pointers to important parts
  • Are there elements that could provide structure for our project(s)?
• and critique
  • What is good and/or useful to us?
  • What seems wrong or poorly presented?
  • What was especially well presented?

For the entire semester, you are the "go-to" person for the class -- please read early and be prepared to help us with the content of your article, and how it connects to other components of the class.