2009 Linguistic Institute: Calendar of Events

There is a lot going on at this year's LSA Institute at UC Berkeley. In order to help out, I've created a Google calendar from all of the events listed here: LSA Events Schedule.



Please email me at kimwitten at gmail dot com with any suggestions about how to make this calendar more useful to you. Thanks, and see you at the LSA Institute!

Update: It should be noted that the LGSA and its members and officers are not affiliated with the LSA Institute, other than participation as attending students. This calendar is meant as a visual aid for planning purposes only.

Paid Teaching/Tutoring Opportunity at the Learning Assistance Center (LAC)

From the LAC:

Are you interested in building your professional and academic skills while helping other SF State students?

The Learning Assistance Center (LAC) is currently hiring upper division and graduate students to tutor reading/writing/study skills and math/sciences/study skills for the Fall 2009 semester. Work-study and international students are welcome to apply.

At the LAC, you’ll get the opportunity to work with a diverse group of students in a great job environment with flexible hours and ongoing support from peers and experienced faculty coordinators.

Starting pay is $10.26 an hour. Tutors work at least 8 hours a week. In addition, new tutors also take AU 697: Tutoring Across Disciplines, a seminar that meets once a week for two hours and covers the theory and practice of tutoring.

For information about positions, the application process, or AU 697, please visit the LAC web site: http://www.sfsu.edu/~lac/lacjobs.html

To be considered for an interview before the end of the semester, please submit a complete application as soon as possible. Applications submitted after May 20th will be considered for interviews over the Summer Break. Positions are limited, so submit your application for consideration as early as possible.

Applications can be dropped off on campus or sent by mail.

2009 Linguistic Institute, July 6 - August 13, 2009
Linguistic Structure and Language Ecologies
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Sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America
& the University of California, Berkeley
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Director: Andrew Garrett (University of California, Berkeley)
Associate Director: Nick Evans (Australian National University)
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Registration and fellowship applications will go online from these websites in January.

The theme of the 2009 Institute is Linguistic Structure and Language Ecologies, highlighting the relation between linguistic structures and the ecologies in which they are embedded, including physical and psychological contexts, demographic and social contexts, and historical and geographic contexts.

20 six-week courses and 60 three-week courses are offered. Course listing here.

Students receive full academic credit (and all campus privileges) at the lowest per-week cost of any Linguistic Institute since 2003. Student members of the LSA may apply for fellowships that cover all tuition and fees. Information about the fellowship process.

Information about Forum and Institute lectures by Mark Baker, Stephen C. Levinson, Malcolm Ross, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Donca Steriade, and Michael Tomasello.

T.A. spot available for the Spring 2009 semester

Dr. Waksler just announced one T.A. (Teaching Assistant) spot open up in the 804 Teaching Practicum class for next semester. The class is a T.A. training course for linguistics, and it has 4 workshops to be scheduled by the group during the semester, rather than regular weekly meetings. (Ignore the Thursday afternoon listing on the University website schedule.) If you would like more info, or would like to apply for the class, please e-mail Dr. Waksler.

ENG 804, Teaching Practicum in Linguistics

A note from Dr. Waksler:
You'll be figuring out your Spr09 schedules, so here's info about ENG 804, the Teaching Practicum in Linguistics. It is an excellent elective for MA Ling students' programs.

Five students will be accepted in the course, with the meeting time to be decided by the group. We meet formally for one hour ~4 times in the semester (not weekly, as in the schedule) for discussions and teaching workshops. 804 students are teaching assistants for the large Intro Linguistics course, ENG 420. Teaching assistants are available for one office hour per week, at a time of their choosing. Attendance at the 420 class lectures is not required, though each TA will proctor one exam during one class period, scheduled for Tu/Th 2:10-3:25 for Spr09.

The course is particularly recommended as excellent preparation for anyone wanting to enter academia. It is beneficial to have a teaching practicum on your graduate transcript, and, of course, in your letters of recommendation. It counts as an elective graduate course in either the MA Linguistics or MA TESOL programs. Below is a course outline to give you an idea of what we will do.

This course will enable students to apprentice with faculty who teach undergraduate language studies classes in order to gain knowledge and experience in the various skills needed to teach linguistics concepts in the classroom.

Students will aid in the teaching of a large language studies course.
Under the direct guidance of the professor, students will have the opportunity to learn about and/or gain experience in:

• Leading a class discussion
• Giving a class lecture
• Assessing undergraduate progress by evaluating projects, papers, and/or exams*
• Advising undergraduates by holding office hours outside of class

Students may make grade suggestions; the instructor of record will be responsible for all final grades.

Note: To be eligible, a student must be enrolled in the MA Program in English, Concentration in Linguistics or TESOL, and must formally apply for this Practicum on a semester-by-semester basis. Only students who have been accepted to Eng 804 by the instructor of record may enroll.