Correspondence Seminar: Bringing Linguistics to High Schools
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چکیده
We present the concept of a correspondence seminar as a way to complement and support one-time contests, especially olympiads. We evaluate specific payoffs of this way of teaching linguistics, and compare its nature to that of a linguistics olympiad. We believe that the correspondence seminar is a great way to introduce talented high school students to linguistics.
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