lsa outreach plans

[Debbie Anderson]

Dear Heidi, Jeff, et al.,
I wrote to Ian Maddieson, who was one of the participants at the LSA
"Acoustic Analysis" tutorial, which Heidi cited:
> ------------------------------
> Tutorial: Acoustic Analysis
> Time: 1:00 - 6:30 PM
> Organizers: Lisa Lavoie (Harvard U) & Ioana Chitoran (Dartmouth C)
> Participants: Sharon Manuel (MIT), Janet Slifka (MIT), Stephanie
> Shattuck-Hufnagel (MIT), Lisa Zsiga (Georgetown U), Ian Maddieson
> (UC-Berkeley), Joyce McDonough (U Rochester), John Kingston (U
> MA-Amherst)
> -----------------------------

Here's his response.

Debbie


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Maddieson [mailto:ianm at socrates.Berkeley.EDU]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:24 PM
To: Deborah W. Anderson
Subject: Re: Question on tutorial at LSA

>Dear Ian,
>I am a member of a group that is considering doing a tutorial at the
>next LSA and I was wondering how it went with the "Acoustic
>Analysis" tutorial you participated in.
>
>a. Was there a very large audience?
>b. Was there an opportunity to do hand-on work by members of the
audience?
>c. Can you comment on the format used and whether it worked effectively?
>
>I'd be grateful for your thoughts on this.
>
>With best wishes,
>Debbie

Hi Debbie,

The audience was very gratifying considering the long hours involved
and the mainly
lecturing format did not seem to turn people off, although some
little mini-assignments
might have been a good addition.  Most of the speakers had a
time-slot about the same
as a regular LSA paper, so couldn't really contemplate doing much of
that kind of thing.
The first presentation was a longer one, though, and might well have
tried to have a
bit more hands-on stuff for the participants (in practice this would
have meant something
like mini-assignments on a handout).  As it was, some presenters did
ask questions of the
audience about what they were showing, but the main way that interest
was maintained
was in having changes of speaker and making sure that (most of) the
presentations were
inherently lively and interesting.

Hope these remarks help.

Ian

Ian Maddieson, Professor
Department of Linguistics
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University of California,
Berkeley CA 94720-2650
USA

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