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Chaya wrote a new post, Exploring the Languages of the Himalayas–in Queens, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 5 years, 6 months ago
What do you notice as you walk through the main streets of your neighborhood? Do you instinctively see only the signs that are written in a language you know, or do you also stop to consider those written in a […]
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Chaya wrote a new post, Learning by Doing: Sociolinguistics, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 5 years, 6 months ago
“William Labov was a 30-something-year old working as an industrial chemist when he started wondering about something. In his dealings with people, he had noticed, first of all, that people spoke English d […]
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Chaya commented on the post, Finding One’s Own Voice: Reflections on Artifact Speech, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 6 years, 1 month ago
I love this! I never experimented with artifact speeches when I taught public speaking courses, but I would definitely try it if the opportunity ever arose, based on your beautiful reflection. Thanks for sharing!
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Chaya wrote a new post, Yiddish I: The Struggle for Status and Survival, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 6 years, 1 month ago
In a previous blog post I discussed how social attitudes are implicated in our valuation of languages and dialects, that is, I highlighted the tendency to think more highly of languages and dialects that are […]
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Chaya wrote a new post, To PowerPoint or not: Reevaluating the use of slides in the classroom, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 6 years, 4 months ago
I came of age academically at a time when PowerPoint was just starting to become a thing in the classroom. I first encountered it in a Biology 101 Honors course at SUNY Rockland Community College, taught by Dr. […]
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Chaya wrote a new post, Confronting Language Attitudes in Introduction to Linguistics, on the site CUNY Humanities Alliance 6 years, 7 months ago
Students in the Introduction to Language class I am observing this semester had a homework assignment on the first day of classes: “Look up the word ‘language’ and bring a definition to class. Report which […]