UA leads panel discussing 'Teaching with Invented Languages' at the Linguistic Society of America meetings 2017

Using language invention as a way to teach introductory linguistics to University students is catching on. UA Linguistics has long been offering a Tier One general education course in which students invent a language, and as graduate students earn their degrees and move on to jobs at other institutions, they've taken this approach with them.

UA Linguistics faculty member Amy Fountain collaborated with Jeffrey Punske, now Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, to coordinate a symposium at the annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America in Austin, Texas about approaches to teaching linguistics with language invention and constructed languages ('conlangs...