The Apprentice Dialogues

Welcome to episode five of the Apprentice Dialogues!  In this episode, Ariel & Michelle take a crack (or a kick, or a hit, or a punch, or a stab…) at describing what linguistics is. Using their backgrounds in applied linguistics, as well as the examples of others who might have been linguists - such as Ariel’s very prescriptive mother - they get into the misconception between being multilingua...

Welcome to episode four of the Apprentice Dialogues! In this episode, Ariel & Michelle turn the focus onto Ariel’s research and the world of ethnography, memoir, and the personal lived experience. Ariel explains the process around how her own thesis unfolded and how it ties into public scholarship and the importance of sharing people’s stories. They also touch on the Platonic Dialogues, ‘resea...

Welcome to episode three of the Apprentice Dialogues! In this episode, Ariel & Michelle take an in-depth look at Michelle’s independent research, which focuses on some of the overlooked pros of internet culture, the challenges researchers face translating academic knowledge to social media, why academic language can be so difficult to understand, and why people raised on the internet sometimes...

Welcome to episode two of the Apprentice Dialogues! In this episode, Ariel & Michelle begin to explore creativity and the creative process via their experiences writing master’s theses in Applied Linguistics. An isolating choice in their program, Ariel & Michelle found a way to turn this solitary element of academic culture into a shared experience – which ultimately resulted in this podca...

Welcome to the first episode of the Apprentice Dialogues! In this pilot episode, Ariel & Michelle – two newlygrads in Applied Linguistics – introduce their shared interest in public scholarship, their complicated relationships with both academia and social media, the circumstances that brought them to begin this podcast project…and martial arts! Music cred: DanAndPhilBEATS. Track: A Good Stret...