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Johnson, Sarah – Composition Forum, 2022
Scholars in writing studies have positioned numerous critiques of the tacit myth of Standard English (*SE) and its use as an unquestioned communicative norm. While these critiques reflect the overlap of the field's translingualism and anti-racist writing assessment movements, they also reveal an empirical need surrounding the writing instructors…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Writing Instruction, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes
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Slinkard, Jennifer; Gevers, Jeroen – Composition Forum, 2020
Although writing scholars have increasingly emphasized the need for more equitable approaches to language (difference) in the composition classroom, specific examples of teaching praxis remain sorely needed. In this article, we offer three sets of activities that we have used in our own classes designed for multilingual students. In formulating…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Ideology, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Watson, Missy; Shapiro, Rachael – Composition Forum, 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…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Nonstandard Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes