{"id":7164,"date":"2022-01-17T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/?page_id=7164"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:38:47","slug":"linguistic-justice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/research-and-professional-development\/faculty-seminars\/linguistic-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Linguistic Justice: Critical Language Awareness, Translingualism, and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy in the College Writing Classroom<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b><span><em><strong>February-March 2022.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/b><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This seminar explores three key theories of the last ten years that should be shaping our approach to multilingual writers and the diverse populations we teach. Building on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middlebury.edu\/academics\/linguistics\/faculty\/node\/436906\">Shawna Shapiro<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/about\/events\/critical-language-awareness\/\">1\/22 talk and follow-up workshop<\/a>\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.middcreate.net\">Critical Language Awareness<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we will read more about these overlapping concepts and consider their implications for instructors teaching WR 111, WR 112, WR 120, WR 15x, and even upper-level WIN courses. We will discuss issues of feedback, attention to grammar, plagiarism, and class participation as we strive for linguistic justice for all students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Note that BU Wheelock will be hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/english.msu.edu\/faculty\/april-baker-bell\/\">April Baker-Bell<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Linguistic-Justice-Black-Language-Literacy-Identity-and-Pedagogy\/Baker-Bell\/p\/book\/9781138551022?gclid=Cj0KCQiA_8OPBhDtARIsAKQu0gblBRJ_sYXZ0snghIfW9qcPw0NU_b03D5mvsBLpyp4QKz-OX3QW0CsaAhL0EALw_wcB\">Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge, 2020)\u00a0on Tuesday 2\/1 (also on Zoom), and we will be reading a chapter from her book a week later in Session 2. Sign up for her talk separately on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/calendar\/?eid=262246\">Wheelock events page<\/a> if interested.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 1: Translingualism as a Lens and Challenge<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><strong>Readings for\u00a0Wednesday 2\/2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Williams, Julia, and Frankie Condon. <a href=\"http:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/A488387956\/AONE?u=mlin_b_bumml&amp;sid=bookmark-AONE&amp;xid=40e45fd1\">&#8220;Translingualism in composition studies and second language writing: an uneasy alliance.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><span> <\/span><em>TESL Canada Journal<\/em><span><em>,<\/em> vol. 33, no. 2, 2016, pp. 1-18.<\/span><span> <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You, Xiaoye. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www-taylorfrancis-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/books\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003003786\/reconciling-translingualism-second-language-writing-tony-silva-zhaozhe-wang\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Yin-Yang of Writing Education in Globalization.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reconciling Translingualism and Second Language Writing, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eds. Tony Silva and Zhaozhe Wang. New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 150-159.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zhang-Wu, Qianqian. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2585500133?accountid=9676&amp;parentSessionId=Xw6QRmp9%2FWU5AL7kddkFN4%2F8eoIMIFbCBdSKvBSxLgk%3D&amp;pq-origsite=primo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c(Re)Imagining Translingualism as a Verb to Tear Down the English-Only Wall: \u2018Monolingual\u2019 Students as Multilingual Writers.\u201d<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College English<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vol. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">84<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, no. 1, 2021, pp. 121\u2013137.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 2: Linguistically and Racially Inclusive Writing Classrooms<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><strong>Readings for\u00a0Wednesday 2\/9:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee, Eunjeong, Jennifer T. Johnson, and Brooke R. Schreiber. \u201cIntroduction: Why Linguistic Justice, and Why Now?\u201d In Brooke R. Schreiber, Eunjeong Lee, Jennifer T. Johnson, and Norah Fahim, eds., <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistic Justice on Campus: Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Students, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022, pp. 1-16. [provided to participants]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baker-Bell, A. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www-taylorfrancis-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/books\/mono\/10.4324\/9781315147383\/linguistic-justice-april-baker-bell\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2018<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s Anti-Blackness Got to Do Wit It?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Routledge, 2020, pp. 11-38.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perryman-Clark, Staci M. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/1833264046?accountid=9676&amp;parentSessionId=kxZJnZn%2BVT4cC9NpT3wL2ZsFxeh4IA50RO%2FB6szAu5o%3D&amp;pq-origsite=primo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWho We Are(n\u2019t) Assessing: Racializing Language and Writing Assessment in Writing Program Administration.\u201d<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College English<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vol. 79, no. 2, 2016, pp. 206-211.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 3: Linguistically Responsive Writing Instruction for Social Justice<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><strong>Readings for\u00a0Wednesday 2\/16:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Gere, Anne Ruggles, et al. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2505410939\/fulltextPDF\/7BCBE3BB8895491EPQ\/1?accountid=9676\">&#8220;Communal Justicing: Writing Assessment, Disciplinary Infrastructure, and the Case for Critical Language Awareness.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><em>College Composition and Communication,\u00a0<\/em><span>vol 72, no. 3 2021, pp. 384-412.\u00a0<\/span><span>ProQuest.\u00a0<\/span><span>Web. 22 Jan. 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toma\u0161, Zuzana, and Shawna Shapiro. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/doi\/10.1002\/tesq.3082\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom Crisis to Opportunity: Turning Questions about \u2018Plagiarism\u2019 into Conversations about Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy.\u201d<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TESOL Quarterly,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> vol. 55, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1102-1113.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zhang-Wu, Qianqian, and Maria Brisk. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/tesq.3077\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c\u2018I Must Have Taken a Fake TOEFL!\u2019: Rethinking Linguistically Responsive Instruction Through the Eyes of Chinese International Freshmen.\u201d<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TESOL Quarterly, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol. 55, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1136-1161<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Session 4: CLA, Asset-Based Approaches, and Writing in the Disciplines<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><strong>Readings for\u00a0Wednesday 3\/2<em> (note skipped week)<\/em>:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kurzer, Kendon. \u201cLooking Beyond Grammar Deficiencies: Moving Faculty in Economics Toward a Difference-as-Resource Pedagogical Paradigm.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Brooke R. Schreiber, Eunjeong Lee, Jennifer T. Johnson, and Norah Fahim, eds., <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistic Justice on Campus: Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Students, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2022, pp. 198-213. [provided to participants]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Moore, Jason Moore, and Mary Schleppegrell. <a href=\"https:\/\/www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/doi\/epub\/10.1080\/00405841.2019.1685337?needAccess=true\">&#8220;A Focus on Disciplinary Language:\u00a0Bringing critical perspectives to reading and writing in science.&#8221;<\/a> Theory Into Practice, vol. 59, no. 1, 2019, <span>pp. 99-108.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Shapiro, Shawna. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www-jstor-org.ezproxy.bu.edu\/stable\/24398689?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents\"><span>\u201c\u2018Words That You Said Got Bigger\u2019: English Language Learners\u2019 Lived Experiences of Deficit Discourse.\u201d<\/span><\/a> <i><span>Research in the Teaching of English<\/span><\/i><span>, vol. 48, no. 4, 2014, pp. 386-406.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Further Reading<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><\/i>Britton, Emma R., and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1060374320300758\">&#8220;The Social Justice Potential of Critical Reflection and Critical Language Awareness Pedagogies for L2 writers.&#8221;<\/a> <em>Journal of Second Language Writing<\/em>, vol. 50, 2020, 100776.<\/li>\n<li><span>Jenkins, Jennifer. <i>English as a Lingua Franca in the International University: The Politics of Academic English Language Policy<\/i>. Routledge, 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Lippi-Green, Rosina. <a href=\"http:\/\/stanford.edu\/class\/linguist150\/readings\/LippiGreen_Ch4.pdf\">\u201cThe Standard Language Myth.\u201d<\/a> In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/bu\/detail.action?docID=958316\"><em>English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and<\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0Discrimination in the United States<\/em><span><em>,<\/em>\u00a02nd ed., Taylor &amp; Francis Group, 2011<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shapiro, Shawna, and Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, eds.\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1qyblu5YDoBI2zoZVtadeuaGmz4i4SRpnNOlGBAbfRCk\/edit\"><i>Critical Language Awareness for L2 Classrooms and Curricula:\u00a0<\/i><i>A Selected Bibliography.<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>Suggested readings\/viewings by April Baker-Bell for her 2\/1 talk:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacklanguagesyllabus.com\"><span> http:\/\/www.blacklanguagesyllabus.com<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BmbzPzip4Fs&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BmbzPzip4Fs&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cccc.ncte.org\/cccc\/demand-for-black-linguistic-justice\"><span>https:\/\/cccc.ncte.org\/cccc\/demand-for-black-linguistic-justice<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ncte.org\/nctefiles\/groups\/cccc\/newsrtol.pdf\"><span>https:\/\/cdn.ncte.org\/nctefiles\/groups\/cccc\/newsrtol.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linguistic Justice: Critical Language Awareness, Translingualism, and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy in the College Writing Classroom February-March 2022. 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