Month: November 2018 (Page 2 of 2)

A Linguistics Biography

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Find an informant with whom you can learn much about their life history and language history. You will want to develop at least ten questions to dig deep into their language history. What is their experience with language? Multilingualism, language socialization, focal vocabularies, prejudice, etc. You might explore second, third or fourth language learning of this individual. Heritage languages? Continue reading

A Survey Questionnaire

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Design  a basic survey questionnaire. Survey questions will be used to answer a research question you would like to ask the entire class. Your sample frame is all students in the class. Create a research question.  What do you want to know about UCB students? Consider which broader population you wish to generalize your results. Continue reading

Analyzing a TED Speaker’s Speech

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Many TED speakers are published researchers, and many of them base their TED talks on their research: before you look for other sources. Choose a TED speaker that  has published on human trafficking  and write a literature  review on it. Use only published, peer-reviewed articles for your references. Although you are building up to your own argument and documenting your research process, try to avoid a personal tone. Statements like “I believe” or “I could not find…” put the focus more on you than on your topic and make you seem less credible. You usually don’t need to talk about yourself unless you have a really good reason e.g. personal experience–used sparingly–or primary research–interviews, surveys, etc. that you have personally written and conducted. Continue reading

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