In recent years, linguistic discrimination—along with racial discrimination—has led to increased attacks on individuals who speak a language other than English in public. These discriminatory events are often filmed and shared online where they become viral. Despite their pervasiveness, there is very little discussion on how to mitigate the occurrence of these episodes in the future; as a society, we remain without a coherent response. 

To address this, we, Jhonni Carr and Román Luján proposed in a co-authored published article the concept of language solidarity, which entails concrete strategies that linguistic allies can implement to engage in preventative measures to protect speakers of languages besides English and their freedom of language choice. 

For our collaborative project as fellows at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of California, Berkeley, we sought to further develop the concept of language solidarity and create instructional materials and assignments that allow us (and other language and linguistics educators) to help our students achieve the objectives mentioned below.