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Exploring a translingual approach to language difference in composition

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Textbook: Academic Discourse and Language Difference

This textbook is edited by Samantha Looker-Koenigs, an associate professor of English and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and is ideal for a first-year writing course on linguistic difference and academic writing. The first first

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Textbook: What’s Language Got to Do with It?

This textbook comes from two applied linguists, Keith Walters of Portland State University and Michal Brody of Sonoma State University, and focuses on linguistic diversity, the politics of language difference, and how language influences identity. I used selections from this

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Textbook: Reading Culture

Reading Culture, edited by Diana George and John Trimbur, was the first textbook I used and is used throughout Emerson College’s First-Year Writing Program. Based on George and Trimbur’s backgrounds in rhetoric and composition, the reader comes from a social-epistemic

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Translingual Teaching

This page collects assignments, readings, classroom activities, and presentations that contribute to a translingual classroom. Most of these resources explicitly discuss literacy practices and/or develop arguments about language use. But, the content of translingual texts does not always focus on linguistic practices. Some resources focus on developing an awareness of language difference, which is necessary for a translingual classroom ecology.

These resources provide some ideas for a translingual class, but is, by no means, exhaustive. Translingualism and language difference need not be the entire theme of a class for you to bring in a conversation about literacy practices and/or to reflect on the literacy practices promoted in your classroom. However, translingual approaches to academic discourse do need to be accompanied by critical conversations about language difference.

For more about the theoretical underpinnings of translingual pedagogy and the potential benefits for translanguaging TCU, see Why a Translingual Approach?

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