On April 24th, Dr. Mangar’s Spanish 3H classes welcomed Ms. Aspen Abner, who gave the class a lesson on dialectology! Aspen is a student at Harvard that studies Linguistics and Comparative Literature with a minor in Education, cross-learning at MIT.
During the lesson, Aspen taught Stanners about dialects and how they form and change. She explained how different regions and social groups use different words to mean the same thing, and then gave the class examples in Spanish! She utilized group work and class discussion, teaching students how to look up the history of certain words. Thank you, Aspen, for visiting our students!