There are a lot of great psychology-law talks at LSA this year! Just finished going through the conference program, and I'm really looking forward to next week! #LSA2021 twitter.com/tessmsneal/status/139524...

"Jurors’ Calibration to Complicated Scientific Evidence in Court"

@law_soc presentation of multi-study results funded by @NSF, collaboration between @asu_ssbs and @UNLPsych folks.

Led by PhD student @kmmccowa.

#ASUPsychLaw #LSA2021 #CLJLab @mr_snrub

5/28/21, 5pm CST

Virtual conference by @law_soc this year has a whisky sour cocktail hour (I'm down); a dance party (!); a virtual tour of places and spaces relevant to Chicago's Haymarket Affair re: labor relations, protest, terrorism; and some great talks. #LSA2021

Reminder to all Michigan Linguists that today is the day to reactivate your search/tweetdeck feed for #LSA2021.

Congratulations, Class of 2021! Wherever you go, Go Blue.

With confirmed negative results of a COVID test, I can confirm that somehow I got the traditional post-conference cold from a virtual conference. #LSA2021

I need a bigger audience for the awesome pun of following up a pun about the upper peninsula of Michigan by saying "Don't mind me; I'm just trolling." #LSA2021 #imonfirethismorning

Am I the only one astonished by how conference-like this conference feels? I suppose I am up in ALL the digital spaces but it a lot of the informal base-touching is still happening; the impromptu "Nah lets go go have a beer instead of this next talk" is still a thing. #lsa2021

I'm doing a bad (nonexistent) job livetweeting but I just want to say I am always so here for @SaliTagliamonte and her team's incredible longitudinal data. #LSA2021

And the follow on: if you have a twitter handle, put it on the *first* slide so that livetweeters know who to at. #LSA2021

Not a slam on the talk I'm in which is awesome and wonderful and this is a common throwback to older bad practices but PEOPLE NO ONE GIVES A --- ABOUT YOUR REFERENCES IN A TALK. End with how to get in touch with you! If I want your references, I'll do that. #LSA2021

It isn't an LSA annual meeting if this doesn't happen! I'm missing Scholarly Teaching this evening to chair Sociolx posters II #LSA2021

I'm now chairing Sociolinguistics II Poster session at 4PST!!! So now I'm advertising it, hi! We'll be talking abt "just", non-native speech, hesitation, pausing, key smashing, language contact, and vowels! #LSA2021 #sociolx

Thank you so much for coming! #LSA2021 #SoTL

If you've ever tried to draw a wug, you realize the explanation is that "first you draw an s, then you draw a more different s." #LSA2021 #trogdor

"We don't have time for a coup; we have a conference!" #LSA2021 #hotelbar

Come to the SotL we have cookies #LSA2021

Also it's hard to tease people in a Zoom chat the way we all can in a session. #LSA2021

Dennis Preston demonstrates definition of 'blathering' while discussing blathering vs stammering vs stuttering ;) #LSA2021 #citizensociolx

TEACHING QUESTION

Has anyone taught a field methods class with an explicit focus on how to complete a project as a team?

#lsa2021 #ssila2021

Ling in HS #LSA2021 — closing thoughts

There was some chat in the Q&A about how to deal with potential conflicts between what you teach in linguistics and the lg attitudes students encounter in other classes

e.g. "Mrs. X told me I can't say gonna. Is she wrong?" >>

Ling in HS #LSA2021

>> we were rushed for time, but I wasn't satisfied by the answers

Many English teachers have harmful ideologies about lg

There will be times when the proper response is "that teacher is wrong" (or racist)

Instructors need to prepare for that in advance

Ling in HS #LSA2021 — closing thoughts

- I think in every case study here, the majority of the students were multilingual

- most of these case studies were from private schools….that makes a difference!

- multilingualism & the sci method are two great focuses for ling classes

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Larson et al.

3 potential pathways for AP Ling instructors:

-Sciences (lg as cognitive system)
-World Languages (lg diversity & unity)
-Social Studies (lg as dimension of identity)

→ways to analyze a system, drawing on the approach instructors already use

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Larson et al.

Here are the "core units" they came up with for AP Ling

1) Language Structure & Function
- expression building
- externalization
- interpretation

2) Language Growth & Development
3) Language Variation
4) Language Change

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Larson et al.

Giving these staffing considerations, when it comes to designing an AP course for ling, we need to

- identify core of "intro ling" [oof! hard!]
- identify "pathways" for teachers from diff backgrounds
- provide training specific to pathways

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Larson et al.

When recruiting staff...

Opportunity: The interdisciplinary nature of ling means potential HS ling teachers could come from world languages, STEM, social studies, ELL

Challenge: Most HS instructors have no prior ling education!

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Larson et al.

This talk is on recruiting & training teachers — gets to issues of LONGEVITY and EXPERTISE mentioned by others in the session

Beyond selling the course: STAFFING
- Who can teach this?
- What dept(s) would be involved?

I recognize that not everyone has the neuro-ability to multitask with chat and Zoom simultaneously and I get it. But for those who can be somewhat flexible, learning to juggle more than one stream can be immensely productive. #LSA2021

I finally just had it with people not using the chat and starting blowing it up. This is actually great--speakers can basically immediately start taking questions and compliments! #LSA2021

Ling in HS #LSA2021: Morse

Another common theme — students do not need to have succeeded in previous English classes, previous science classes, etc. to succeed in an ling class!

[Ling can be an "in" to science that allows exciting hands-on research, relevant to students lives]