The field of dialectology has become a natural venue for research-based teaching methods
because data collection and analysis can increasingly be carried out online. This paper
reports on an undergraduate dialectology assignment which not only gives students hands-
on experience collecting and analysing data, but has also resulted in a public interactive
learning tool. Students enrolled in a large sociolinguistics course at the University of
Manchester are instructed to distribute to a minimum of ten acquaintances a questionnaire …