discourse & language

5) Students' language and ways of communicating are drawn upon as resources to learn the content and prepare to communicate ideas within the discipline. 

Students are encouraged to use their first language on drafts of their work (written and spoken) and then translate into academic English.

• Should Writers Use They Own English 2010 essay about using vernacular English by Vershawn Ashanti Young. 

• Ask students to explain topics to roommate, sibling, family member, etc.

• Students synthesize and understand content and communicate to peers, community, or others in the appropriate language/format.

Students are encouraged to draw on their knowledge of different languages and literacies to connect to course content and learning. 

• Inclusive and Antiracist Writing Review Simon Frasier University resource with inclusive and antiracist principles and resources. 

• Supporting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners in English Education Statement from 2005 describing K-12 English teachers’ beliefs, from the National Council of Teachers of English.

Students are encouraged to conduct research in languages other than English within academic and popular resources. 

• Embracing the Perpetual ‘But’ in Raciolinguistic Justice Work: When Idealism Meets Practice 5 videos with stories highlighting moments of struggling to practice linguistic justice values within different disciplinary situations.

Students are introduced to specific disciplinary forms of communication (language, vocabulary, and discourse patterns).

• The Role of Bilingualism in Shaping Engineering Literacies and Identities strategies for creating environments that promote development of engineering literacies/ identities.

• 10 Ways to Tackle Linguistic Bias in Our Classrooms Inside Higher Ed article Jan 2021.

• Translating from technical/academic language to ‘lay’ language: have students create pamphlets for the community; translated a protocol from medical language to layman’s terms.

• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy foundational article by Django Paris, 2012.

• Writing Across the Curriculum Variety of resources from Writing Across the Curriculum

• Writing Across Communities: Deliberation and the Discursive Possibilities of WAC Traditional writing models privilege academic discourse over other discourses.