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Category Scholarly References

Here you will find research articles, books, anthologies, and special issues of academic journals exploring code-meshing as a translingual writing strategy in the classroom and beyond.

Some of these resources include lesson plans and assignments that allow both domestic and international students to explore their diverse use of language outside of the dominant conventions of academic and professional writing.

Other resources are academic studies that have observed and traced the intricacies of mixed languages (including pidgins and creoles) around the globe and the diversity of dialects within a single language, like English.

Please note that the items appear in alphabetical order according to the short title, across several pages. Please explore!

“Nah, We Straight”

Young, V. A. (2009). “Nah, we straight”: An argument against code switching. JAC, 49-76. Find the article here.

“New People in New Worlds”

Gee, J. P. (2000). New people in new worlds: networks, the new capitalism and schools. In B. Cope & M. Kalantzis (Eds.), Multiliteracies: Literacy learning and the design of social futures (pp. 42-66). London: Routledge. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0415214211

“Other People’s English”

Young, V., Barrett, R., Young-Rivera, Y., & Lovejoy, K. B. (2014). Other people’s English: Code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/9780807755020

“Pedagogy for College Writing Instruction”

Lovejoy, K. B. (2014). Code-meshing and culturally relevant pedagogy for college writing instruction. In V. A. Young, R. Barrett, Y. Young-Rivera, and K. B, Lovejoy (Eds.), Other People’s English, Code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy (pp. 119-152). New York: Teachers… Continue Reading →

“Professors Translanguaging in Practice”

Mazak, C. M., Mendoza, F., & Mangonéz, L. P. (2016). Professors translanguaging in practice: Three cases from a bilingual university. In C. M. Mazak &, K. S. Carroll (Eds.), Translanguaging in higher education: Beyond monolingual ideologies (pp. 70-90). Channel View… Continue Reading →

“Racism in Writing Programs”

Inoue, A.B. (2016). Friday Plenary Address: Racism in Writing Programs and the CWPA. Writing Program Administration 40(1); 134-154. Find the journal at worldcat.org/isbn/1602359148

“Research on Multilingual Writers”

Poe, M. (2013). Research on multilingual writers in the disciplines: The case of biomedical engineering. In A. S.Canagarajah (Ed.), Literacy as translingual practice: Between communities and classrooms (pp. 170-181). New York, NY: Routledge. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0415524660

“The Responsibility of the WPA”

Miller-Cochran, S. K. (2010). Language diversity and the responsibility of the WPA. In B. Horner, M-Z Lu, and P. K. Matsuda (Eds.), Cross-language relations in composition (pp. 212-220). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0809329824

“Rotten English”

Ahmad, D. (Ed.) (2007). Rotten English: A literary anthology. New York, NY: Norton. Find the anthology at worldcat.org/isbn/0393329607

“Safe Houses in the Contact Zone”

Canagarajah, A. (1997). Safe houses in the contact zone: Coping strategies of African-American students in the academy. College Composition and Communication, 48(2), 173-196. Find the article at doi.org/10.2307/358665

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