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Opinion: Language Difference in Writing--Toward a Translingual Approach
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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
"I Want to Be African": In Search of a Black Radical Tradition/African-American Vernacularized Paradigm for "Students' Right to Their Own Language," Critical Literacy, and "Class Politics"
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Kynard, Carmen – College English, 2007
By revisiting the work of the Black Caucus and the radical rhetorics connected to Black Power and the black radical tradition, in this essay the author hopes to rebuild a frame where the picture of an African-American-vernacularized paradigm for critical literacy and social justice can emerge. She revisits the twinning of "Black Power/Black…
Descriptors: African Americans, Models, Justice, Black Dialects
Toward Educational Linguistics for the First World.
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Smitherman, Geneva – College English, 1979
Suggests a holistic approach to the language of Black people involving theory and research, policy and planning, and implementation and practice, the ultimate aim of which is knowledge for liberation. (DD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Educational Needs, Higher Education