Current Search: Language and languages -- Variation (x)
-
-
Title
-
The dilemma of the language-minority stud.
-
Creator
-
Ruiz, Maegan, Galin, Jeffrey R., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
-
Abstract/Description
-
If we define language fluency as more than simply a way of speaking, but also a way of thinking, acting, and being, then we enter a conversation of language as ‘Discourse’ that was sparked by James Paul Gee. This conversation invokes discrete designations of Discourse as home-based, school-based, dominant, and non-dominant. These designations reveal divisions between Discourses that are believed to manifest themselves in the identity formation of ‘language-minority students:’ those whose home...
Show moreIf we define language fluency as more than simply a way of speaking, but also a way of thinking, acting, and being, then we enter a conversation of language as ‘Discourse’ that was sparked by James Paul Gee. This conversation invokes discrete designations of Discourse as home-based, school-based, dominant, and non-dominant. These designations reveal divisions between Discourses that are believed to manifest themselves in the identity formation of ‘language-minority students:’ those whose home Discourse is non-dominant. The dominant Discourse that these students encounter in school generates two documented paths: Richard Hoggart’s scholarship boy and Herbert Kohl’s not-learner; both paths reflect the limited agency of these students within academia. In order to counteract this delimiting of student agency, this project proposes a progressive shift towards a post-modern conception of identity formation; this can be accomplished by opening the Composition classroom to student authored, non-traditional, ‘hybridized’ Discourses.
Show less
-
Date Issued
-
2013
-
PURL
-
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004053
-
Subject Headings
-
Discourse analysis, Language and education, Language and languages -- Variation, Linguistic minorities -- Education, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
-
Format
-
Document (PDF)
