COURSES
I taught undergraduate and graduate classes at NEIU with a focus on sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Below you can find a list of the courses I taught and developed with a bioef description for each course. When I don't teach classes in linguistics, I enjoy teaching German!
Ling 120
Language and Human Behavior
This course offers an introduction to the basic principles of linguistics. Subjects covered include components of language, language and society, language and the brain, child language acquisition, language contact, pidgins and creoles, and sign language.
Ling 322 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
This undergraduate course offers an introduction to language variation based on social and regional contexts. Topics covered include language variation and change, ethnic, regional, and social dialects, language discrimination, language and gender, pidgins, creoles, and mixed language systems.
Ling 330
Language, Gender, and Sexual Identity
This course introduces students to gender and sexual identity as they connect to language, meaning, and interaction. We consider how language mediates and is mediated by social constructions of sex, gender, and sexuality. We also explore how language is used to perform gender and sexual identity, and how gender and sexual identity are perceived through linguistic expression.
Ling 335
Language and Discrimination
Language use is a powerful tool of social identity construction, and often an unrecognized way in which speakers are categorized into social groupings. This course examines the ways our beliefs about language lead to social discrimination in various public and private contexts.
Ling 446 Sociolinguistics
This MA level course covers quantitative and qualitative approaches to language variation and change, styles and varieties tied to particular contexts, relationships between language and gender, class, ethnicity, and social networks, sociolinguistic aspects of multilingualism, including issues of minority language maintenance and revitalization.
Ling 450
First Language Acquisition
This MA-level course examines the stages through which a child passes towards native language mastery of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Various theories that attempt to account for the child's ability to acquire language are considered in the context of monolingual and bilingual language acquisition.
Ling 452 Psycholinguistics
This MA-level course looks at the cognitive processes involved in language and conversation, more specifically at the mapping, storage, processing, and access of language in the brain. We discuss aspects of language comprehension, production, development, and language-related pathologies.
Ling 480
Corpus Linguistics
This course introduces students to the theories and methods of corpus-based linguistic research. Topics include methods of corpus research, ethics of corpus research, language description and comparison, child and second language analysis, psycholinguistics, language change, genre, and discourse analysis.