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Ai Taniguchi, PhD
Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) - English Language Linguistics and Online Teaching
University of Toronto Mississauga
Department of Language Studies
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(If you are a student in one of my courses, check the class Quercus page for information regarding the course.)


I have been teaching linguistics since 2014. I am a creative educator in linguistics with a passion for making linguistics accessible and meaningful for everyone. My forte as a teacher is in creating engaging asynchronous online lectures, the integration of art and design in education, public outreach in linguistics, and general audience lectures in linguistics. Here's my CV.

Teaching interests:

• Equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization in linguistics
• Public outreach and education in linguistics
• Innovative online teaching (especially large courses)
• Academic integrity and copyright, especially in large introductory courses
• Comics as a medium of instruction

Textbook publication:

• Essentials of Linguistics (2nd edition)

Outreach and public education work in linguistics:

• LingComics projects
• SDUK 10: PRONOUNCING contribution (popular article)
• High school outreach in the Greater Toronto Area (more info coming soon)
• LSA 2019: 5-Minute Linguist (winner)
• I've also done several media interviews and public lectures - see CV.

Other pedagogy work in linguistics:

• Teaching Academic Writing via Theoretical Linguistics: Towards Authentic Assessments in Introductory Linguistics Classes (CLA 2021)
• Teaching Introductory Linguistics with Justice: Updating an Open Educational Resource (CLA 2022)
• Semantics and Pragmatics in a Justice-Centered Introductory Linguistics Textbook: Reflections from Updating an Open Educational Resource (TOM14 2022 invited talk)
• See CV for others.

Resources for teachers:

• Resources for teaching formal semantics in intro
  
• Please feel free to reach out to me if you want any of my syllabi, or if you have any questions about teaching semantics with Essentials of Linguistics (2nd edition).

Here are some courses I teach at UTM:

• LIN204 (English Grammar I)
  
• LIN205 (English Grammar II)
• LIN233 (English Words Through Space and Time)
• LIN237 (Semantics)
• LIN337 (Lexical Semantics)
  

Here are some courses I have taught before (at Carleton University):

• LING1001 (Introduction to Linguistics)
• LING1100 (The Mysteries of Language)
  
• LING2005 (Linguistic Analysis)
  
• LING3505 (Semantics)
  
• LING4505 (Formal Semantics)
  
• LING4055 (Lexical Semantics)
  
• LING4009 (Special Topic in Linguistics)
• Winter 2019: Formal Approaches to Social Meaning (and other non-at-issue meaning)  [syllabus] [reading list]