Language, Race, Discourse, and Practice in the Writing Center by

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"Writing is a technology. Writing allows us to capture otherwise ephemeral

conversations and ideas, to put words down on paper." (Clary-Lemon, Mueller, & Pantelides (2022))

"Firstly, they presume that all ELLs are a homogeneous group displaying invariable levels of English fluency (Shapiro, 2011) that has to be offered a one-size-fits-all linguistic remediation" (Chaka 2021)

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"They see persuasion as ultimately about power, whereas invitational rhetoric instead

works to develop equitable relationships." (Clary-Lemon, Mueller, & Pantelides (2022))

Notes on Mena (2019)

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Appropriateness deals with the emergence of appropriate speakers/use of a language

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The ways in which writers are expected to write in the academy comes from a long process in U.S. society of centering certain white English-language speech patterns. Given these conditions, we acknowledge what we know about so-called standard or academic English.

Chaka (2021)

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To this end, he illustrates his view by pointing out that Michelle Obama (former U.S. First Lady)
was once pilloried for her “poor ebonic English” (p. 833) (her nonstandard English) or for style-
shifting between Standard American English and African American English, while her Standard
American English was simply ignored.

Frames & Identities

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Language frames not only convey information but also construct cultural identities. When individuals use language frames unique to their cultural contexts, it can affirm group identity and differentiate them from others, and a Hybrid language is needed within academic writing.

In the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Power (2022), Falconer emphasizes language's powerful role in shaping and asserting cultural identity, especially within diverse societies.

talking to another writer :) but then they imply someone's language use = their intelligence :(

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"The first reason has to do with the normative practice of fixing and remediating the presumed linguistic deficiencies of ELLs. This practice is rooted in and undergirded by deficit assumptions often attributed to ELLs. "(Chaka)

Chaka (2021) p. 28

jameswright15 — 2024-11-02 14:10:26 UTC

Whiteness as discussed earlier. Mostly, it constructs ELLs as non-Whites whose English language competence (or lack thereof) is judged against that of White, native speakers. This is a point that Obeyesekere (2017) poignantly highlights when she insists that Whiteness “acts as the absent presence, or hidden referent against which all other colours are measured as a form of deviance” (p. 11).

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"witness" is a crucial aspect of academic writing that acknowledges and validates diverse linguistic backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. The concept of witness here implies actively recognizing and bearing testimony to how marginalized students and writers navigate academic spaces historically dominated by White language norms.

(2021). CCCC Statement on White Language Supremacy. National Council of Teachers of English

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The concept of languagelessness (which is really hard to say out loud!) is especially troubling to me because it questions people's actual humanity is a really overt way.

Exploring decoloniality in language

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Decolonial approaches to language involve actively recognizing and valuing linguistic diversity. This includes validating dialects, vernaculars, and languages traditionally excluded from mainstream standards or indigenous languages.

Statement on white language supremacy

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white supremacy by using language to control reality and resources by defining and evaluating people, places, things, reading, writing, rhetoric, pedagogies, and processes in multiple ways that damage our students and our democracy. These gives rise to a sense of nativeness to people who speak the white language hence alienating the so called ‘non-native’ speakers

2024-11-02 14:15:39 UTC

Another concept I had never thought about in this way. It is absolutely not true. I have a degree in English, and taking Spanish helped me to better understand the technical aspects of English. I took College Grammar and Spanish I at the same time, and I passed grammar because of Spanish!

Language and identities

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Just like an onion, the self has many layers, some more
central (inner) layers and others more peripheral (outer) ones, but all of them are subject to change over time and none of them forms an essential and fixed core (like the stone in the middle of the peach). The ‘onion’ view of identity is the dominant one in the social sciences nowadays, and it is referred to as ‘social constructivist’ because it looks upon people as actively constructing (or co-constructing) their identity in society. We have added ‘co-constructing’