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Publication Date: 2018
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Clarifying the Multiple Dimensions of Monolingualism: Keeping Our Sights on Language Politics
Watson, Missy; Shapiro, Rachael
Composition Forum, v38 Spr 2018
While we in composition studies may have grown more sensitive to and welcoming of cultural and linguistic differences in the classroom, we remain far from united in pursuits to combat explicitly in our pedagogies the politics of standardized English. To move toward linguistic justice, we call for unified intention and action across our field to explicitly combat the very monolingualist ideologies so many of us, no matter our good intentions, uphold and perpetuate in our classrooms and institutions. One issue preventing unified approaches in contesting monolingualist ideologies, as we see it, is that we do not forefront in our minds and our practices the material consequences of monolingualist ideology, nor have we come to a holistic consensus on the monolingualism paradigm. With this article, we hope to clarify just what it is we are rejecting when we contest monolingualism, and, in so doing, be better prepared to combat more explicitly the harms of linguistic hierarchies.
Descriptors: Language Variation, Nonstandard Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Monolingualism, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Higher Education, English Only Movement, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Misconceptions, Politics of Education, Attitude Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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