This fall, my colleagues and I are piloting a new course for our newly-constituted First-Year Writing Program. All 5 sections of the pilot draw from a recent shift in US composition studies from an English-only norm to translingualism. This blog documents my personal journey as a teacher-scholar as I walk alongside my colleagues and students.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Why Teach Global English?
David Crystal's distinction between comprehension in "Global English" and production in "Global English" is a crucial one and this video gave me ways of thinking about my translingual first-year classroom and what I should aim for.
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