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<br>Kevin Hurley<br><br>Participants:<br>Andrei Barshkov, Italian; Claudia Cooper, English and Teacher Education Programs; Florence Feiereisen, German; Michael Geisler, Language Schools and Grad Programs; Kevin Hurley, Language Schools; Michael Sheridan, Anthropology; Ana Martinez-Lage, Spanish; Stefano Mula, Italian
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Memorandum<br>To: Language Department Chairs, et al.<br>From: Kevin Hurley<br>Date: 12/10/08<br>Re: Notes from Linguistics Meeting
  
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BACKGROUND<br>Participants commented on recent developments and reinforced their interests in more language pedagogy and a linguistics minor. Stefano noted that there is always linguistic activity with students who choose the subject for senior theses. In the Teacher Education program, Claudia expressed the need for foreign language pedagogy for the 2 or 3 students, on average, who would benefit in their certifications. Updates on faculty hires included the addition of Andrei to the Italian department (teaching “Introduction to Romance Linguistics” in Spring ’09) ; the Spanish department’s intention to hire a linguist for next year; and Michael S. reported on a request that was recently denied for a linguist in Socio-Anthro. Michael G. reminded everyone that the EAC was in favor of the linguistic minor proposal in ’05 suggesting that, going forward, a preferred timeline for the new minor would be 2010-’11.
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<br>Participants: Andrei Barashkov, Sandra Carletti, Claudia Cooper, Armelle Crouzieres-Ingenthron, Florence Feiereisen, Randy Ganiban, Michael Geisler, Kevin Hurley, Nancy O’Connor, Carrie Reed, Patricia Saldarriaga, Allison Stanger, David Stoll, Charlotte Tate
  
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CHALLENGES <br>Michael G. explained the challenges with the past proposal and going forward. A recurring challenge is to get faculty commitments for course teaching, particularly consistency in the introductory courses. And the Study Abroad and Monterey semesters offer conflicting schedules e.g., should students limit their SA experience to only one semester in order to fit in another semester at MIIS?
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BACKGROUND<br>The meeting was called to discuss teaching commitments from the language departments, particularly for introductory courses in linguistics.  
  
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LINGUISTICS COURSES<br>Participants reviewed their departmental contributions to linguistic courses (with emphasis on LING. 0101 &amp; 0102) as follows:
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LANGUAGE, MIND, AND CULTURE SPEAKERS SERIES <br>The annual series was proposed for Spring ’09. Allison and Charlotte offered the Rohatyn Center’s services in facilitating this series and others, as needed. Florence described an internal speaker series with faculty speaking on linguistics-related topics. The working title is “Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics.” It was suggested, based on the tentative schedule, that speakers not be scheduled for April because of its high activity.
  
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Italian – one course in English/year;one course in Italian/year @ 400 level (Barashkov)
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LINGUISTICS COURSES<br>The below chart configures proposed courses. The timeframe is for introductory courses 2009-’10 in preparation for a linguistics minor in 2010-’11. The immediate challenge is developing introductory courses with departmental commitments for future.<br>
  
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German – currently unable to offer; if agreed within the department, there is the possibility to teach an intro course or “structure of German” (Feiereisen)
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Chinese 200-Level in English “Chinese Socio-Linguistics” (Hang) Little capacity.<br>Classics 200-Level in English: classics oriented or Indo-European (Syfoeras) <br>French 200-Level in English: translation theory and practice* Little capacity or linguistics expertise<br>German ? 200-Level in German: “Structure of German” (Feiereisen) <br>Italian 100-Level in English: “Romance Languages” (Barashkov)<br>Japanese - &nbsp; Little capacity. N. Ogawa could teach linguistics<br> Sociology &amp; Anthropology 300-Level in English: “Language and Power” (Sheridan - biannual) Possible hire of a socio-linguist who could teach an intro. course<br>Spanish &amp; Portuguese 300-Level in English: language teaching &amp; acquisition (Martinez-Lage)* Little capacity – a linguist will be hired for internal teaching in Spanish <br>Teacher Education Psycholinguistics Discourse Analysis <br> Psychology ? ? <br>Religion/Arabic 100-Level in English "Diversity of Human Language" (Soltan)<br>Religion/Arabic 100-Level in English "Introduction to Linguistics" (Soltan)<br>Russian ? ? *Tentative pending developments
  
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Spanish – Language teaching/acquisition @ 300 level (Martinez-Lage); new Spanish hire
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COMMENT<br>Claudia emphasized the integration of teacher education with language students interested in applied linguistics.In a discussion of the minor requirements, Sandra suggested at least one semester with a linguistics course in language. Nancy also suggested inclusion of translation courses in the minor.Patricia described the challenges for the Spanish/Portuguese faculty in teaching in English outside the department with current demands. The department intends to hire a linguist this year who would be able to offer courses in language. There is a possibility of negotiating between a linguistics course in English and other outside commitments such as the First-Year Seminar.The MIIS role was briefly discussed with Florence asking about the possibility of online courses with MIIS. Kevin suggested that joint teaching or faculty exchanges with MIIS might expand options. Michael thought that budget concerns would limit the latter option.The Anthropology-Sociology department has offered linguistics courses and could do so, in future, biannually (Sheridan, 300-Level). David reported that Anthro-Socio requested a linguistic anthropologist but had been denied by the EAC. If a hiring is successful, the faculty member could offer an introductory socio-linguistics course.
  
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Socio-Anthro – Teaching Language &amp; Power @ 300 level (Sheridan); currently requires intro. to anthropology course; resubmission of proposed linguist hire would add another professor
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<br>OTHER<br>A wiki for linguistics has been created (Kevin) and anyone interested is invited to join the discussion and to comment on memos and materials such as this one.For those interested in learning about wiki’s, LIS has offered to do the introductory session (45 mins.; min. 3 individuals) for those interested in the linguistic wiki. Send Kevin an email.
  
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Teacher Education – Psycholinguistics or discourse analysis (Cooper)
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Other possible individuals/departments: Arabic (Soltan); Russian (Smorodinskaya); Chinese (Du); Classics (Sfyroera)
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<br>ACTIONS
  
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It was agreed that a meeting would be convened by Michael G. with all the language department chairs to consider teaching contributions to a linguistic minor, including the introductory courses.
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• Michael will discuss with Renée Jourdenais, Dean Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics, MIIS potential teaching and course contributions.<br>• Next meeting to-be-schedule 2009
  
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Solidifying these options involves distribution of departmental teaching resources and other possible solutions to the teaching commitment. Anna suggested that team teaching, by dividing the semester into 3-week sections, might be more manageable for faculty. Distance learning with MIIS, including team-teaching, or in bringing a MIIS faculty member to Middlebury were other options for both covering the linguistic courses and integrating with the MIIS program. The idea of starting introductory courses at MIIS was also considered.
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Stefano recommended that LING. 0100 &amp; 0200 be taught in 2009-’10 as interdisciplinary courses before designating the minor degree. The program would provide a pilot for assessment of student interest and reinvigorate the linguistics minor for future consideration.
 
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There are no proposed J-Term offerings in linguistics for ’09.The possibility of courses being taught by MIIS faculty was considered but because of the forthcoming administrative change in the MIIS presidency it was not considered likely on short notice.
 
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OTHER<br>Anna emphasized that student projects related to linguistics need to be supervised by departmental advisors (including courses in English).
 
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Florence proposed an internal lecture series presented by interested language faculty to promote linguistic course areas and related concepts to provide background and generate student/faculty interest on campus. Michael G. referred to the Language, Mind, and Culture series as a previous opportunity to bring linguists to Middlebury. Florence agreed to revisit the series as a possible venue for her idea.
 
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<br>ACTIONS<br>• Michael S. offered to forward his course syllabus (done)
 
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• Kevin will organize a meeting of language department chairs (all those involved in the linguistics discussion are invited to join when a date is set).
 
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• Michael G. will speak with Susan Campbell and discuss the reconstitution of the linguistics proposal and he will keep Renee Jourdenais (MIIS) informed.
 

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LINGUISTIC MEETING NOTES 10-29-08 - (attached)


File:Linguistic Mtg Memo 10-29-08.pdf


LINGUISTIC MEETING NOTES 12-10-08

Memorandum
To: Language Department Chairs, et al.
From: Kevin Hurley
Date: 12/10/08
Re: Notes from Linguistics Meeting


Participants: Andrei Barashkov, Sandra Carletti, Claudia Cooper, Armelle Crouzieres-Ingenthron, Florence Feiereisen, Randy Ganiban, Michael Geisler, Kevin Hurley, Nancy O’Connor, Carrie Reed, Patricia Saldarriaga, Allison Stanger, David Stoll, Charlotte Tate

BACKGROUND
The meeting was called to discuss teaching commitments from the language departments, particularly for introductory courses in linguistics.

LANGUAGE, MIND, AND CULTURE SPEAKERS SERIES
The annual series was proposed for Spring ’09. Allison and Charlotte offered the Rohatyn Center’s services in facilitating this series and others, as needed. Florence described an internal speaker series with faculty speaking on linguistics-related topics. The working title is “Language Works: An Invitation to Linguistics.” It was suggested, based on the tentative schedule, that speakers not be scheduled for April because of its high activity.

LINGUISTICS COURSES
The below chart configures proposed courses. The timeframe is for introductory courses 2009-’10 in preparation for a linguistics minor in 2010-’11. The immediate challenge is developing introductory courses with departmental commitments for future.

Chinese 200-Level in English “Chinese Socio-Linguistics” (Hang) Little capacity.
Classics 200-Level in English: classics oriented or Indo-European (Syfoeras)
French 200-Level in English: translation theory and practice* Little capacity or linguistics expertise
German ? 200-Level in German: “Structure of German” (Feiereisen)
Italian 100-Level in English: “Romance Languages” (Barashkov)
Japanese -   Little capacity. N. Ogawa could teach linguistics
Sociology & Anthropology 300-Level in English: “Language and Power” (Sheridan - biannual) Possible hire of a socio-linguist who could teach an intro. course
Spanish & Portuguese 300-Level in English: language teaching & acquisition (Martinez-Lage)* Little capacity – a linguist will be hired for internal teaching in Spanish
Teacher Education Psycholinguistics Discourse Analysis
Psychology ? ?
Religion/Arabic 100-Level in English "Diversity of Human Language" (Soltan)
Religion/Arabic 100-Level in English "Introduction to Linguistics" (Soltan)
Russian ? ? *Tentative pending developments

COMMENT
Claudia emphasized the integration of teacher education with language students interested in applied linguistics.In a discussion of the minor requirements, Sandra suggested at least one semester with a linguistics course in language. Nancy also suggested inclusion of translation courses in the minor.Patricia described the challenges for the Spanish/Portuguese faculty in teaching in English outside the department with current demands. The department intends to hire a linguist this year who would be able to offer courses in language. There is a possibility of negotiating between a linguistics course in English and other outside commitments such as the First-Year Seminar.The MIIS role was briefly discussed with Florence asking about the possibility of online courses with MIIS. Kevin suggested that joint teaching or faculty exchanges with MIIS might expand options. Michael thought that budget concerns would limit the latter option.The Anthropology-Sociology department has offered linguistics courses and could do so, in future, biannually (Sheridan, 300-Level). David reported that Anthro-Socio requested a linguistic anthropologist but had been denied by the EAC. If a hiring is successful, the faculty member could offer an introductory socio-linguistics course.


OTHER
A wiki for linguistics has been created (Kevin) and anyone interested is invited to join the discussion and to comment on memos and materials such as this one.For those interested in learning about wiki’s, LIS has offered to do the introductory session (45 mins.; min. 3 individuals) for those interested in the linguistic wiki. Send Kevin an email.

https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/Linguistics/Main_Page


ACTIONS

• Michael will discuss with Renée Jourdenais, Dean Graduate School of Language and Educational Linguistics, MIIS potential teaching and course contributions.
• Next meeting to-be-schedule 2009


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