{"id":1944,"date":"2026-07-02T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/?page_id=1944"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:39:14","slug":"exploring-grammar-in-food-reviews-a-critical-language-awareness-approach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/exploring-grammar-in-food-reviews-a-critical-language-awareness-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Grammar in Food Reviews: A Critical Language Awareness Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lyn Westergard and Chloe de los Reyes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assignments &amp; Activities Archive<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Westergard-Reyes-Final.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Westergard-Reyes Final.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-ec32c836-9fed-4e0f-bc6d-54e703053668\" href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Westergard-Reyes-Final.pdf\">Westergard-Reyes Final<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/parlormultimedia.com\/writingspaces\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Westergard-Reyes-Final.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-ec32c836-9fed-4e0f-bc6d-54e703053668\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activity Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">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 prescriptive rules. Students explore how writers use grammatical choices to craft tone, articulate perspective, and orient their message to specific audiences. The assignment is informed by scholarship on linguistic justice, which challenges the assumption that so-called \u201cstandard\u201d academic English is neutral or inherently superior (Baker-Bell, 2020; Flores &amp; Rosa, 2015). Rather than treating multilingual language practices as deficits, linguistic justice frameworks call educators to interrogate how language hierarchies are socially constructed and tied to race, class, and power. From this perspective, grammar instruction becomes an opportunity not only to analyze form, but also to examine how particular grammatical features are often granted legitimacy while others are not. Drawing on translanguaging theory (Garc\u00eda &amp; Wei, 2014), this activity invites students to see their full linguistic repertoires as meaningful resources for communication. Multilingual writers often navigate multiple linguistic systems and discourse communities, strategically shifting registers, styles, and features in response to context. By analyzing contrasting food reviews, students examine how adjective strings, intensifiers, and multimodal elements such as emojis function rhetorically. 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