Recent Presentations
Check it at the door: Activities for social and emotional learning for students AND teachers
Aylssa Tobar, Cheryl Chan & Jayene Elvin, CATESOL 2019
Teachers and students alike can carry their emotions from outside into the classroom, sometimes preventing them from engaging in class work. This workshop offered arts-based techniques for teachers to check their emotions before going into the classroom. Participants gained strategies to use themselves and to teach their students.
Turtle to Teacher: Strategies to overcome shyness and develop confidence
Aylssa Tobar, Cheryl Chan & Jayene Elvin, CATESOL 2019
Standing in front of 30 pairs of eyes can be a daunting task. For shy, nervous, or introverted teachers, this experience can be especially scary. This workshop explores methods for overcoming that anxiety and becoming an amazing educator. This interactive workshop will provide all teachers art-based techniques and exercises for developing a dynamic teacher persona.
AN ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC DESCRIPTION OF VOWELS IN CROW (APSÁALOOKE )
Jaydene Elvin, John Simonian, John Boyle & Paola Escudero, ICPhS 2019
In this study we present a preliminary acoustic-phonetic analysis of three long vowels /iː/, /aː/, /uː/ in Crow and their short counterparts /i/, /a/, /u/. The target vowel tokens were surrounded by alveolar obstruents and produced by a single female speaker who was literate in Crow. Duration and formant measurements were analyzed. In particular, we investigated the amount of spectral change in the formant trajectories by obtaining F1, F2 and F3 values at 30 equally spaced time points from the central portion of the vowel.