Student Success & Leadership Retreat
Category
Social Justice
On Language Conflict and Culture
Uzbekistan Language Conflict: A Case Study On a Sunday afternoon, I met a friend at her house for a play date with our kids. We had met recently at our kids’ school so we started talking about our homelands and the journeys which had led us to the Big Apple. We talked about my life…
On Language Justice
English as Lingua Franca (ELF) Debate: Ideas in Flux Although this artifact is a short response to our course readings and research, it is the root of many areas of research with which I currently engage. This artifact furthered my research on code-switching, i.e. Spanglish, code-mixing, like dialects, and disglossia—of low and high English colloquial variants—which became…
Identity and English: Case study
My informant—who for the purpose of this interview I will call Rossy—is a 33-year-old female, born and raised in the Dominican Republic (DR). (I have noted Rossy’s comments in quoted bold- italics). Rossy attended Art School between 2000-2003; she was my roommate. On a personal level, Rossy has a very candid spirit: she believes in…