LING315

GUIDELINES FOR FINAL PROJECT

Deadline: 6 January 2020
(1) Pick a specific sociolinguistics problem or phenomenon that can be surveyed or tested
experimentally. Typical examples might be: type of code switching as a function of
social class; aan focus on English in primary education and focus on
materials and so on; Or you can focus on use of English in the linguistic
landscape of the country you already analyzed. Please confirm your
focus with your instructor.

(2) Find a minimum of FIVE (5) supporting references, in addition to the readings assigned
for this course (HINT: you can find many references related to the topics and units in
Wardhaugh and Fuler’s book). Make sure you have actually read the works in question.
In the text of your project. Use APA 6th edition for citations and references

(Please visit the following website for APA

style:https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ )

(3) State a research hypothesis/argument: e.g. intrasentential code-switching will be more

common among lower social classes, women will vocalize syllable-final /l/ more than
men, etc. You can still do this point if you are doing a research based project. However,
your work is more document analysis type. You can still have your own
position/argument towards the place of English in the country you are
analysing and base your discussion around that topic. If you want to do
it. Otherwise, I am not expecting you to have a hypothesis.

THE ACTUAL PROJECT (TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED) WILL CONSIST OF THE

FOLLOWING PARTS:

(1) A narrative description of the project, covering points 1, AND/OR 4, AND/OR 5 above.
(2) A copy of your proposed survey or experimental stimuli.
(3) An example of how the elicited data might be analyzed (e.g. on an Excel spread-sheet,