linguistic diversity

Exploring Grammar in Food Reviews: A Critical Language Awareness Approach

Activities, Critical Language Awareness, genre and discourse community, grammar and mechanics, linguistic diversity, rhetorical situation, Style, translingualism, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Lyn Westergard and Chloe de los Reyes Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity uses food reviews as an entry point for teaching grammatical awareness, specifically adjective strings and intensifiers, within a multilingual undergraduate writing course. Grounded in critical language awareness, the activity positions grammar as a rhetorical resource rather than a set of […]

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Clause Patterns, Clause Meanings

Activities, Critical Language Awareness, drafting and revising, grammar and mechanics, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, reflection /

Mark Shea Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description In my writing classroom, I want students to approach revising and polishing with the idea that there is benefit to trying different phrasings and sentence structures. Even if their current writing works, the only way to know if there’s a better version is to try new versions

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Communication Guide Assignment

Assignments, CLA, Critical Language Awareness, cultural awareness, identity, linguistic diversity /

Alexandria Hanson Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description First-year students often enter introductory writing courses with a wide range of language experiences and backgrounds. To develop critical language awareness, as Shawna Shapiro writes, it is important to help students “recognize the variation within their own linguistic repertoir—no matter how many languages or language varieties they

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Gen AI: Large Language Models and Linguistic Whitewashing

Activities, genAI, language bias, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, writing technologies /

Chris Mayer Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This multi-step lesson engages students in the critical analysis of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and its impact on linguistic diversity. Through assigned readings, writing tasks, and in-class activities, students will explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can reinforce linguistic hierarchies and biases. Even older LLMs, like

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Beyond Language Difference in Writing: Investigating Complex and Equitable Language Practices

linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, translingualism, volume 4, writing in global contexts /

Cristina Sánchez-Martín Volume 4 Chapter Description The goal of this essay is to inquire about the role of language difference in the learning of writing, especially in academic settings where normative and exclusionary views of language and writing dominate. The essay begins with the description of a recipe, a genre that includes explicit examples of

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Workin’ Languages: Who We Are Matters in Our Writing

linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, translingualism, volume 4, writing in global contexts /

Sara P. Alvarez, Amy J. Wan, & Eunjeong Lee Volume 4 Chapter Description The steady increase of movements of people around the world has transformed the face, potential, and expectations of the US writing classroom. These intersecting shifts have also contributed to critical discussions about how writing educators should integrate students’ linguistic diversity and ways

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