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Direct linkPerryman-Clark, Staci M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The relationship between cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, and composition has been a topic that has received much attention in rhetoric and composition's disciplinary conversations, even if current pedagogical practices used to address these matters lag behind in progress. In this essay, the author focuses on how to address linguistic…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Black Dialects, Rhetoric
Horner, Bruce; Lu, Min-Zhan; Royster, Jacqueline Jones; Trimbur, John – College English, 2011
Arguing against the emphasis of traditional U.S. composition classes on linguistically homogeneous situations, the authors contend that this focus is at odds with actual language use today. They call for a translingual approach, which they define as seeing difference in language not as a barrier to overcome or as a problem to manage, but as a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Download full textSmith, J. Elspeth S. – Writing Instructor, 2011
In this essay, the author discusses her journey from her first year of the PhD program at USC, and the work she is doing now for a company that builds infrastructure in Afghanistan. She explores the ways in which studies for her 1985 PhD in Rhetoric, Linguistics and Literature did and did not prepare her for the work she does now. Her memoir…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Females, Expectation
Wible, Scott – College Composition and Communication, 2006
This essay examines a Brooklyn College-based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC's 1974 "Students' Right to Their Own Language" resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Writing Instruction, African Americans, Black Dialects
