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Tag Archives: African American
Resources: Language in Baltimore | Exploring the linguistic charm of Charm City
Dr. Christine Mallinson (UMBC) has produced an impressive blog which highlights the sociolinguistic research of her and her students. Dr. Mallinson is a young, but up-and-coming researcher, who has worked on ethnic variation in North Carolina and training teachers to … Continue reading
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Tagged AAE, AAVE, African American, Anne Charity Hudley, Baldamore, Baltimore, Charm City, Christine Mallinson, Daniel Morales, ethnicity, Heidi J. Faust, Holly-Catherin Britton, hon, immigrant, Inte'a DeShields, Language, language and identity, Linguistics, multilingual, Panthea Parang, Sociolinguistics
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Resources: “DO YOU SOUND ASIAN WHEN YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?” RACIAL IDENTIFICATION AND VOICE IN CHINESE AND KOREAN AMERICANS ENGLISH — Newman and Wu 86 2: 152 — American Speech
The use of speech in racial identification has important legal consequences. Many of my students are shocked when statements about the racial identity of unseen speakers is allowed in court testimony (e.g. the OJ Simpson trial). In … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, American dialects, American Speech, Angela Wu, Asian, Asian English, Asian linguistics, black, City University of New York, court, dialects, English, ethnicity, forensic linguistics, language and ethnicity, Latino, legal, Mexican american, Michael Newman, OJ Simpson, Queens College, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, racial identification, speech, testimony, white
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Resources: Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together | Video on TED.com
Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to enter space, is a doctor and an avid dancer. In this 2002 TED talk she calls for the U.S. to reintegrate science and art instruction. Art, she says, cannot simply be creative … Continue reading
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Tagged 1992, 2002 TED, African American, analytical art, analytical skills, art education, artistic analysis, astronaut, creativity, dancer, Education, growing creativity, Mae Jemison, science and art education, science education, scientific creativitity, space, teaching, TED, the creativity of science, woman
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Classroom Activities: Celebrating International Mother Language Day
Today (February 21, 2011) is the 11th annual International Mother Language Day. It’s the day that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) asks us to recognize and honor the strength that linguistic diversity brings us. This blog has … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, African American languages, American, and Cultural Organization, Beowolf, bilingual, Classroom Activities, democratic, English language, English Only movement, English-only, First language, hedge schools, human rights, International Mother Language Day, Irish, Jon Reyhner, language education, language policy, language rights, language teaching, Linguistic relativity, linguistic rights, Linguistics, literature, Mayan, minority language, minority language groups, monolingual, mother tongues, multilingual, Native American, Native American langauges, Navin Singh, Northern Arizona University, Old English, Patricia K. Kuhl, Patricia Kuhl, pedagogy, Sapir, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Scientific, Second language, social studies, standard, Steven Pinker, TED, TEDx, translation, UN, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights, United Nations Educational, Whorf
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