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Our project was born in the bits and pieces of conversations we had together and with other students that always seemed to lead back to a common theme: there is no platform for students in our field to talk about their interests or share their research. We created the GradLings podcast for students at any stage in their career to have a space in which they can discuss their experiences about venturing into the world of linguistics and higher education. The program is intended to promote coll ...
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The GradLings kick off the fifth(!!) season of the program with a throwback interview with Ane, who is now an Assistant Professor at California State University Northridge where she teaches Spanish linguistics and translation. Boden and Robbie chat with Ane in the summer of 2020 as she was unwinding from finishing her dissertation and transitioning…
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Have you ever considered the importance of an origin story? Or have you ever been curious (confused) about where to draw the line between breakfast and lunch time? In this episode of GradLings, Boden and Robbie tackle both of these topics with Matthew, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is studying mass neuter interpretatio…
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Like a lot of linguists, Lupe researches how language gets things done. However, her dissertation has implications beyond language use alone. As a PhD student in the Applied Linguistics program at Penn State, Lupe studies how interactions contribute to how graduate students in the Humanities are socialized into their profession, an uphill battle th…
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Robbie has met her pop culture match! In this episode of the GradLings Podcast, she sits down with Ander, a 2nd year Hispanic Linguistics PhD student at UIUC (and her Basque instructor!). In addition to talking about his awesome research (NASA might or might not have been mentioned), Ander discusses his passion for teaching Spanish and Basque langu…
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For most US university students, that pesky foreign language requirement can be the worst part of any semester. Despite strides language educators and researchers have made in communicative language teaching, some of these students feel like they cannot speak a new language because they cannot nail down its ‘sound’. Camille, a PhD Candidate in Fren…
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We are so excited about this episode, we are doing backflips! Well, we are trying to anyways... Sal is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin who works with language attitudes and identity among Latinx communities. For Sal, community is key not only in his research but also in his everyday life. He sits down with the GradLings to talk…
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In the foreign language classroom – specifically the Spanish classroom – how do heritage speakers learn and what can instructors do to help them study language? Sara Fernández Cuenca is figuring that out in her research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sara’s dissertation examines how explicit instruction can help heritage learner…
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At 275 million speakers and growing, French remains a global force to be reckoned with. So why is there so much fuss over 'protecting' the French language? Gyula, a PhD candidate in French Linguistics at UIUC, is working towards helping understand French prescriptivist attitudes in our globalizing world. Specifically, Gyula uses computational and s…
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The GradLings host a very exciting and fun episode of the program on location at this year's University of Alabama Languages Conference. In addition to returning to home roots, the GradLings host a panel of awesome grad students studying TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), Romance Linguistics, and Old English! The ladies and the…
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The GradLings got a chance to chat with Tricia, an upbeat first year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Now starting the SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) program within the French Linguistics track, Tricia talks about how she keeps her goals in mind as she expands her research. Tricia and the boy…
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How does language contribute to a person's identity? To the identity of a collective culture? A community? In the first episode of the third season, Charlotte talks to the GradLings about her work examining the relationship between the French language, Black feminism, identity, and sources of linguistic authority. The episode takes a radical turn w…
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Sarah Steele is the resident superhero at the Department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama. Before beginning on the PhD journey in Tuscaloosa, Sarah completed her Master's in Education with an emphasis in Spanish and ESL at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her passion has carried her far in the classroom but with…
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While Robbie is away, the boys will...learn some linguistics (of course)! Mark is a PhD candidate at THE Ohio State University who has worked with a number of research projects over the course of his career so far. Currently he is investigating the phenomenon of mood alternation in Rioplatense Spanish in certain future-framed contexts. Mark is such…
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Yes, you read that correctly. Join us as we talk with Sabine and Diane in the first episode of our second season of GradLings! Being two native German students finishing their programs here at the University of Alabama, the GradLings wanted to get their take on the American education system with respect to their experiences being students in German…
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This week, the GradLings (especially Robbie) are very excited to be welcoming their fellow grad student Tommy, a French doctoral student researching the evolution of the negation marker in the French language. Tommy has been with the the department here at UA for...quite some time. In his time first in the Master's program and now on the verge of c…
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Given the opportunity and the necessary resources, studying abroad comprises a very important phase in the foreign language student's relationship with the target language. As the design of the typical study abroad experience has evolved over time to the demands of modern language education, the potential obstacles have evolved along with it, parti…
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Our colleague Alyssia is finishing up her last year with us at Alabama. Her dissertation focuses on a system of her own innovation - the five A's - that addresses student motivation in the language-learning process. She gives us some excellent insight into what it's like to be in the final phases of the dissertation and getting herself ready for th…
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GradLings here with our third episode of the season! This week, we sat down with two PhD students, Sandra and Giovani, who are in their final stages of data collection and will begin down the scary path of analysis! In their episode, they give us some insight into what their experiences have been in graduate school while raising a family and managi…
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This week, the GradLings sit down with Sara Finney, a PhD candidate here at UA finishing up her dissertation on the use of role-play in language acquisition. Her incredibly interesting work focuses on implementing real-life situations - specifically, interactions along the Mexican-US border - to encourage her students to develop characters and use …
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Welcome to the very first episode of the weekly GradLings Podcast. Our first guest Jana, a doctoral student in applied linguistics, tells us about her current research topic "Bringing the Past to Life".由The Gradlings
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