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Disruptive French: Using OER to promote linguistic justice in the French-language classroom
Title
Disruptive French: Using OER to promote linguistic justice in the French-language classroom.
Creator
Blattner, Geraldine, Dalola, Amanda, Roulon, Stephanie
Abstract/Description
A prestige-focused approach to language teaching, motivated by hegemonic definitions of “normativity” defined by a privileged few, is one that sustains inequity, misrepresents the speech community, and excludes learners by denying them access to the cultural and linguistic tools they need to relate to real-world users. Now more than ever, as language departments struggle to fill seats and argue for the relevance of their disciplines, educators must instead embrace a linguistic justice...
Show moreA prestige-focused approach to language teaching, motivated by hegemonic definitions of “normativity” defined by a privileged few, is one that sustains inequity, misrepresents the speech community, and excludes learners by denying them access to the cultural and linguistic tools they need to relate to real-world users. Now more than ever, as language departments struggle to fill seats and argue for the relevance of their disciplines, educators must instead embrace a linguistic justice approach which simultaneously critiques monolingualism and integrates plurilingual practices essential to valorizing the linguistically-rich realities of 21st-century learners. #OnYGo, an Open Educational Resource (OER) for first-year French, employs a linguistic justice approach that redraws the francophone landscape through a lens of social justice and cultivates learners’ awareness of language variation and identity via translanguaging, the development of metalinguistic awareness, and the thoughtful use of digital tools which invite learners to create and interpret language across modalities, guided by a multiliteracies framework. Because OERs are free from the censorship of commercial publishers, we argue that they should not only be used to increase accessibility to language education but also to promote equitable and iconoclastic approaches to language teaching like the one on display in #OnYGo.
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PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauir000516
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2009-2010
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2009-2010.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2009-2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007614
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2010-2011
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2010-2011.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2010-2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007615
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2012-2013
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2012-2013.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2012-2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007616
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2013-2014
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2013-2014.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2013-2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007617
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2014-2015
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2014-2015.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2014-2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007618
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2015-2016
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2015-2016.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2015-2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007619
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2016-2017
Title
Program Review Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature, 2016-2017.
Creator
Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Florida Atlantic University Departmental Dashboard Indicators. Department program reviews for Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University.
Date Issued
2016-2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007620
Subject Headings
Florida Atlantic University -- History
Format
Document (PDF)
THE SEMANTICS OF SUSPICION IN THE WRITINGS OF DESMOULINS
Title
THE SEMANTICS OF SUSPICION IN THE WRITINGS OF DESMOULINS.
Creator
Gilbert, Ivy, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
An exacting command of language in his employ, journalist Camille Desmoulins was arguably one of the most dangerous and cunning players in the political arena of revolutionary France. His work is a clear synthesis of linguistic and political theory but what, precisely, made it so effective? When his work is regarded collectively, a theme emerges wherein Desmoulins uses language designed to categorically perpetuate suspicion. Using the principles of lexical semantics, rhetoric, and connotation...
Show moreAn exacting command of language in his employ, journalist Camille Desmoulins was arguably one of the most dangerous and cunning players in the political arena of revolutionary France. His work is a clear synthesis of linguistic and political theory but what, precisely, made it so effective? When his work is regarded collectively, a theme emerges wherein Desmoulins uses language designed to categorically perpetuate suspicion. Using the principles of lexical semantics, rhetoric, and connotation, this project seeks to examine the semantic undercurrents of Desmoulins’s works as they relate specifically to the public perception of suspicion, and to define the linguistic parameters within which he operated. An analysis of selected examples will demonstrate how the evocative language speaks to the author’s acute cognizance of his audience and his talent for inflaming the collective unrest through the use of tropes; specifically dehumanization, personification, and the neologism brissoter. Additionally, a feature analysis of nouns and verbs drawn from a sample of Desmoulins’s work further identifies tropes and atypical semantic forms and argues that, through his linguistic manipulation, he was able to sow suspicion among the mercurial Third Estate; both against the monarchy and the ultra-radical Republic.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000379
Format
Document (PDF)