Jennifer Thorburn

TEACHING

2024-25 Academic Year

Course information is available to students through Moodle.

Autumn 2024

Introduction to English Language and Linguistics (course convenor)

Lecture (Tue 16:15-17:00, Anthropole 1031)

Tutorial Group A (Tue 17:15-18:00, Anthropole 5196)

Tutorial Group D (Wed 14:15-15:00, Internef 121)

Tutorial Group E( Wed 15:15-16:00, Internef 121)

Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Mon 12:30-14:00, Anthropole 4021)

English in Switzerland (Tue 10:15-12:00, Anthropole 1015)

Spring 2025

Introduction to English Language and Linguistics (course convenor)

Lecture (Tue 16:15-17:00, Anthropole 1031)

Tutorial Group D (Wed 14:15-15:00, Anthropole 2102)

Tutorial Group E( Wed 15:15-16:00, Anthropole 2102)

English Composition (course convenor)

Group B (Mon 12:30-14:00, Anthropole 5071)

Endangered Languages (Mon 16:15-18:00, Anthropole 4173)

Research Methodologies (Wed 16:15-18:00, Anthropole 5033)

N.B. Timetable information correct as of 24 February 2025. Please consult the faculty's timetable page for the most up-to-date information.

I am also in charge of the English Department's Practicing English Proficiency (PEP) programme and its branch of the Certification de compétence linguistique dans le domaine académique disciplinaire. For more information about these programmes, please visit their respective websites.

Previous teaching

Courses previously taught at UNIL:

English Composition (1st year)
Introduction to English Language and Linguistics (1st year)
Introduction to Sociolinguistics (2nd year)
Language Acquisition (2nd year)
Attitudes to Language (3rd year)
Endangered Languages (3rd year)
Multilingualism (3rd year)
The Sociolinguistics of Cyberspace (3rd year)
World Englishes (2nd/3rd year)

Dialect in Literature and Film
English in Switzerland
Language and Gender
Language Change across the Lifespan
Language in Television and Film
Research Methodologies

In Spring 2017, I was a Visiting Professor at Venice International University, where I taught (i) Language and Gender and (ii) The Sociolinguistics of Cyberspace to Bachelor and Masters students.

Before coming to UNIL, I taught in the School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics at Newcastle University (UK) and in the Department of Linguistics at Memorial University (Canada).

Newcastle University

Undergraduate

SEL1029: Language across Space - Introduction to English Dialects (co-taught with Dr Heike Pichler)

SEL2091: Sociolinguistics and the Sociology of Language (co-taught with Dr Heike Pichler)

Postgraduate

SEL8163: The Sociolinguistics of Language and Society (co-taught with Dr Heike Pichler)

SEL8500: Research Methods in Language and Linguistics (module convenor)

SEL8511: Research Methods in Language and Linguistics I (module convenor)

Memorial University

Undergraduate

LING 2210: Language in Newfoundland and Labrador

LING 1100/2100: Language and Communication

Southern Labrador (between Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Sheshatshiu)