I have held several teaching assistant and grader positions in my time as a graduate student at the University of Toronto. I also had the opportunity to run a workshop on data manipulation in R for undergraduate students in the 2019 Jackman Scholars in Residence Program.

Teaching Assistant

Duties include running tutorials, marking assignments and exams, exam invigilation and developing course materials

• LIN 101 – Introduction Linguistics – Sound Structure (Fall 2018)
• LIN 102 – Introduction Linguistics – Sentence Structure and Meaning (Winter 2019)
• LIN 200 – Introduction to Language (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)
• LIN 204 – English Grammar (Winter 2018)

Grader

Duties include marking assignments and exams, as well as exam invigilation

• LIN 201 – Canadian English (Winter 2020)
• LIN 305 – Quantitative Methods in Linguistics (Winter 2019)
• JPL 315 – Language Acquisition (Fall 2017, Fall 2019)

Workshops

Phonetic Data Manipulation in R

Developed and ran a 4 hour workshop for Yoonjung Kang’s 2019 Jackman Scholars in Residence. The goal of the workshop was to teach the students to use R to code names for several phonetic factors and generate descriptive statistics and graphs. The workshop had 4 parts

1. Importing, viewing and saving data (including preparing data to import into R)
2. Data manipulation (including extracting segments from a string, counting the number of occurrences of a substring in a a string, and coding a variable based on the content of a string)
3. Basic descriptive statistics (including counts, proportions, mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, range)
4. Visualization with ggplot (including bar charts, boxplots and density plots)

Download R code and sample data set: [Data Files]