CoBiVa on Citizen Sociolinguistics Panel at AAAL 2022

At our first in-person conference in years, CoBiVa traveled to the 2022 meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Christoffersen and undergarduate student Ms. Carolina DeAnda presented "Citizen Sociolinguistics at the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Community-Based, Community-Driven Sociolinguistic Corpus with Resources for the Public" on a panel on citizen sociolinguistics. 

The CoBiVa is a part of citizen sociolinguistics (and larger citizen science) as we incorporate undergraduate students without any previous sociolinguistic experience as research assistants. We also reach out to the public through videos and website material, including our most recent project to create teaching materials based on the CoBiVa.

Ms. DeAnda presented on these teaching materials which she is developing through her Engaged Scholar & Artist Award this Spring. Ms. DeAnda is developing three online modules on language ideologies, code-switching, and borrowings. These modules include include background information and links, audio clips and transcripts from the CoBiVa, discussions questions, and example activities. They have a Creative Commons license which will allow teachers to adapt and modify the content. They will be available on the CoBiVa website soon!

Ms. DeAnda did a fabulous job presenting to a large, crowded room full of applied linguists!

Congratulations, Caro! Enhorabuena!