Teaching resources

[Amy L Sheldon]

Advice for anyone who has students collect their own data.

You'll probably need to touch base with your university's IRB board, at
least in the US.  They have to approve all Human Subjects research.
They're mainly looking out for the rights of patients in risky medical
research; so submitting a proposal for linguistic data gathering should
get you a routine, "expedited" approval.  IRB boards also have a template
for a consent form that you can work with.  Amy

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> Finally, Amy Sheldon offered the following practical advice:
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> "It's an eyeopener for students to record themselves and analyze that,
> in relation to a reading. See if their data replicates or not. I have
> them record themselves in conversation with someone they know and
> compare results using one of the categories that Pamela Fishman looked
> at in her couples study: "Interaction: The work women do" in Thorne,
> Kramarae and Henley.
> 	It would be great if there were classroom data available.  I
> have students observe and report on one of their classes, after we read
> a piece by Joan Swann about asymmetrical treatment of females and males
> in classrooms ("Talk control..." in the Coates, _Language and Gender, a
> reader_)."
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> In the end, I've decided against using corpora - largely, because it
> decontextualises the data - which kind of goes against the
> interdisciplinary nature of the module that I'm putting together. I'm
> planning on requesting plenty of edited volumes and working on something
> similar to what Amy suggests.
>
> Again, many thanks - specifically (and in no particular order) to:
> Allyson Jule, Isil Acikalin, M J Hardman, Mary Bucholtz, Ute Romer,
> Miriam Meyerhoff, Tanya Matthews, Lia Litosseliti, Amy Sheldon and Jane
> Sunderland.
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> Emma Moore
> Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
> Department of English Language and Linguistics
> University of Sheffield
> UK
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> Phone: +44 (0)114 222 0232
> Fax: +44 (0)114 276 8251
> E-mail: e.moore at sheffield.ac.uk
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