Encouraging the Expression of Linguistic Identity in Writing, Speaking, and Arguing

Author Stella Wang

“Literacy in Diverse Educational Contexts”

Kinloch, V., Ball, A., & Frànquiz, M. (Eds.). (2010). Research on literacy in diverse educational contexts [Special issue]. Research in the Teaching of English, 45(2). Find the introduction to the special issue here.

“Literacy as Translingual Practice”

Canagarajah, A. S. (Ed.). (2013). Literacy as translingual practice: Between communities and classrooms. Routledge. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0415524660

“Living the Full Catastrophe”

This handout was given as part of Stella Wang’s part of the presentation “Anyone Can Code-Mesh: Teaching and Tutoring Strategies for the First-Year Classroom” at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication. It’s full title is “Living the Full… Continue Reading →

“Louder than a Bomb”

Jacobs, G, & Siskel, J. (Directors). (2011). Louder than a bomb [motion picture]. Own Documentary Club. New York: Virgil Films. Find the premier showing via Own Documentary Club here

“Making Face, Making Soul/ Haciendo Caras”

Anzaldúa, G. (Ed.). (1990). Making face, making soul/haciendo caras: Creative and critical perspectives by women of color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0933216742

“Mambo vijana, Congratulations”

Here is an example of a student’s formal writing assignment using code-meshing. It was used as an example by Suzanne Woodring during her presentation “Code-Meshing and Rhetoric: Engaging Audience and Language Diversity” at CCCC 2018.

Marvel’s “Black Panther”

Coogler, R. (Director). (2018). Black panther [motion picture]. Los Angeles: Marvel/Walt Disney. When Erik Killmonger arrives in Wakanda and is escorted into the room with King T’challa and his council, Erik speaks plainly in his dialect of AAVE, his native… Continue Reading →

“Me Fail English? That’s Unpossible!”

Forgione, A. & Radcliffe, A. (n.d.). Me fail English? That’s unpossible!: Multicultural literacies  Check out the online paper here: http://multiculturalliteracies.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/  

“Mother Tongue”

Tan, A. (2003). Mother tongue. In The Opposite of fate, Memories of a writing life (pp. 771-279). New York, NY: Penguin Group Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0142004898

“Movin on up a Lil Higher”

Smitherman, G. (2004). Language and African Americans: Movin on up a lil higher. Journal of English Linguistics, 32(3), 186-196. Find the article at doi.org/10.1177/0075424204268223

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