[OFF] Teaching: portfolios?

[Tim Frazer]

This is for Mai:  How about linguistic autobiographies?  Where they talk
about their experiences with language variation == comments on their own
dialect or language, encounters with others.

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From: Mai Kuha <mkuha at BSUVC.BSU.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: [OFF] Teaching: portfolios?


> [I'm hoping this is at least minimally appropriate for ADS-L, as a number
> of people on the list teach courses similar to the one I'm asking about.]
>
> This semester, it turned out that many students in my 200-level Language
> in Society class are seniors, postgraduates pursuing a second degree, or
> nontraditional students. Instead of the fairly structured requirements I
> had planned (in-class quizzes) I'd like to ask them to do something more
> meaningful, so I'm wondering about having them assemble portfolios. I've
> never tried that before. Does anyone have any words of advice, especially
> on guidelines to provide and how to grade them?
>
> [Apologies for cross-postings.]
>
> -Mai
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