The Covid-19 Pandemic causes many teaching and learning activities to be held in virtual form. This greatly disrupts language and linguistic teaching activities which require direct interaction with students. Language teaching, for example, requires practice to develop the ability to use the language fluently. Meanwhile, linguistics also requires some aspects to be taught directly, such as articulatory phonetics and phonology. Therefore, The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) in collaboration with the Faculty of Cultural Studies - Universitas Brawijaya presents an online seminar on language and linguistics teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic by presenting speakers from UCLA and the State University of Malang (Universitas Negeri Malang).
Speakers
Dr. Juliana Wijaya is a lecturer at UCLA and teaches at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC). She established and expanded the Indonesian language program at UCLA. The courses she teaches include introductory, intermediate and advanced Indonesian. Dr. Wijaya has done research, presented and published in the fields of second and heritage language pedagogy and acquisition, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. She received her BA in English from Petra Christian University, Indonesia, her MA in linguistics from the University of Oregon, and PhD in applied linguistics from UCLA. Currently Dr. Wijaya is the president of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages, and the Indonesian Studies Coordinator at the UCLA CSEAS.
Dr. Nurenzia Yannuar was awarded Fulbright Master’s Degree program to study Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Ohio University in 2008. Dr. Nurenzia Yannuar completed her PhD at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) in October 2019. Her research promotes a local linguistic practice in Malang. It discusses the structure and development of Bòsò Walikan Malangan (‘Malang-style reversal language’). She currently teaches at Universitas Negeri Malang.
Dates, Time, and Venue
Date : September 24th, 2020
Time : 10.00 am – 12.00 pm
Venue : Virtual via Zoom
Registration Link: tiny.cc/LLTeachingWebinar
