Mentoring Activities & Resources

Linguistics Mentoring Interest Survey: Gathers key details about mentors and potential mentors to expand our overall consultant pool to more effectively match CiTs and non-CiTs with the right mentors. If you are an experienced mentor who is currently mentoring others, or if you are interested in mentoring for the first time or the first time in a while, we need your details in this database.

Ask a Linguist: Offers live Zoom sessions with experienced linguists to help solve project problems. Anyone can attend, contribute answers, and sign up online. 

Linguistics Peer Groups: Offer community, analytical help, shared prayer, and mutual support for linguists. Members meet monthly for six months, with sign-ups due November 30. 

Linguistics Group Mentoring: This initiative provides structured online sessions to help linguistics CiTs achieve core competencies, particularly in regions lacking specialized local mentors. 

Stronger Linguistics Mentoring Initiative The surveys and documents of this guide provide a framework that addresses common challenges of linguistics mentoring. Among other goals, they aim to expand the mentor pool, identify when a person is ready to become a CiT, facilitate appropriate mentor-mentee pairing, provide structured guidelines for tracking relationships, and clarify the consultant certification pathway.