2023 Linguistics Student Conference
April 19, 2023
4:00-9:30 pm
Gruening 409
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Mendoza
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Postmethod language teaching: An alternative organizing principle for heritage language education
In this presentation, I attempt to apply Kumaravadivelu’s construct of “postmethod” language teaching (see 2001 paper in TESOL Quarterly) to heritage language education. I begin by arguing that other “authentic” approaches to language teaching like Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), and Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) do not align with the needs analysis of heritage language (HL) learners and communities. Then, I propose that applying Kumaravadivelu’s pedagogical principles of Particularity, Practicality, and Possibility can meet these needs while also raising teachers’ and students’ critical awareness about language ideologies. To illustrate with concrete practices and strategies, I propose three types of ethnographic exercise as postmethod pedagogy in the HL classroom: physical linguistic landscapes, online linguistic landscapes, and interactional analyses of family and friends’ conversations and literacy practices. I explain why these activities meet the needs and learning outcomes that research has shown to be central to HL teaching, such as expanding students’ range of registers, facilitating textual literacy development, and equitably benefiting all members of a class with diverse proficiencies and profiles.
2023 Schedule of Events
| Welcome 4:00 - 4:15pm |
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| Session 1 4:15 - 5:30pm |
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| Raquel Ream Applied Linguistics (MA) |
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| Alexandra Caccavo Applied Linguistics (MA) |
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| Sooyoung Kang Applied Linguistics (MA) |
Staying Grounded: Challenges and insights from a Teacher Action Research |
| Wetherleigh Griffin Linguistics (BA) |
Majoring in Minecraft: Engaging ESL student in authentic interactions through virtual escape rooms |
Keynote 5:40-6:40pm Dr. Anna Mendoza Postmethod language teaching: An alternative organizing principle for heritage language education |
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Session 2 6:45 - 8:00pm |
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| John Ayodeji Odudele Applied Linguistics (MA) |
Overcoming racisim as a racialized ESL Teacher: A study towards critical anti-racist pedagogy |
| Matt Ford Applied Linguistics (MA) |
Investigating Teacher Emotions in a University ESL Writing Class |
| Dulce Villasenor Linguistics (BA) |
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| Bryce Tasso Linguistics (BA) |
First-Person pronouns in Japanese: Pragmatics and Personality |
Session 3 8:15 - 9:30pm |
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| Mollie Messick INDS (PhD) |
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| Nicole Dufour Anthropology (PhD) |
Communities of Practice and Discourses of ‘Dog Care’ in Arctic Distance Mushing |
| Morgan Reynolds Applied Linguistics (MA) |
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| Brook Barton Applied Linguistics (MA) |
When the Shelf Breaks: Narratives of Deconversion in r/exmormon Posts |