Teaching and Exams
I teach two lecture courses every year:
- Introduction to English Linguistics (with a focus on morphology, semantics, phonetics, phonology, and syntax), and
- Varieties of English (with a focus on the history of the English Language and the sociolinguistics of English; have a look at my Online Sociolinguistics Exercises, which I use in this class.)
I also teach a small number of introductory and advanced seminar courses every year. For example, I have taught the following courses in previous years:
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- Advanced Sociolinguistics: Language Attitudes and Perceptions
- Advanced Sociolinguistics: Language Variation and Change
- Advanced Sociolinguistics: Accents and Dialects in Britain
- Advanced Sociolinguistics: Language and Gender
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics
- Intercultural Communication
- Phonetics and Phonology
Students interested in taking one of my classes should know that I stress student involvement and resource variety by using audio, video, and textual stimuli in addition to online exercises and online reading quizzes. I also prioritise teaching research skills (e.g. questionnaire design, data collection, statistical analysis), as these are crucial for student employability in the future. My seminar courses are research-based, and I have recently published a methods book, very much with the student reader in mind: Doing Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide to Data Collection and Analysis (co-authored with Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Wellington, NZ, and Laurel MacKenzie, New York University, US).
I am authorised to conduct final oral exams at all academic levels. If you are a student and would like to find out more about the examination procedure in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg, please consult this document.
erik.schleef@sbg.ac.at
Office
UniPark Nonntal, 3.239
Mailing address
English and American Studies
University of Salzburg
UniPark Nonntal
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1
5020 Salzburg, Austria