Date/Time: Wednesday, March 15, 5-6 pm
Location: Room 26-142
The students in 24.S95 Linguistics in K-12 Education—Aspen Abner, Christopher Legerme, Cora Lesure, Lorenzo Pinton, and Vincent Zu—have designed a mini-course that they will teach at MIT’s Spring Spark, a weekend of classes for 7th and 8th graders on March 18-19. The class is aptly named Linguistics: The Science of Language (see description below).
You are invited to the practice teaching session. Please come, participate, and give your feedback on the class. It’s your chance to be a 7th/8th grader again!
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Class Description:
Linguistics: The Science of Language
Did you know that language, like all natural phenomena, can be observed and investigated in a scientific way? What is unique about language is that everyone has their own personal and infinite data set living inside their brain. Learn to examine that data the way a linguist would, and puzzle over things that you may not realize you know about the language that you use every day. Learn how linguistics, the science of language, relates to your world and what you’re interested in.