... at the 2011 Modern Language Association conference in Los Angeles, CA, 7 – 9 January 2011. We see these reports from the field as beginnings. We offer them in hopes of continuing the dialogue about the importance of governance, citizenship, and the future(s) of our discipline. Our thanks to the panel...

...Kim Brian Lovejoy; Steve Fox; Katherine V. Wills This article describes specific language experiences of three college writing teachers and the classroom practices that have resulted from these experiences. The authors want to raise awareness of linguistic diversity in writing classes and to help...

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...Ann Evans Most of my students arrive in my required freshman writing class full of ideas but lacking the mastery over language needed to express them. Introducing core linguistic concepts can sharpen their writing skills by illustrating how language works, and by heightening their awareness...

.... 3 of The History of Sexuality . New York: Pantheon. Fox, Nick J. 1999 . Beyond Health: Postmodernism and Embodiment . London: Free Association. Gee, James P., Glynda Hull, and Colin Lankshear. 1996 . The New Work Order: Behind the Language of the New Capitalism . Boulder, CO: Westview...

...Christina Ortmeier-Hooper; Meaghan Elliott © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Works Cited Conference on College Composition and Communication . 1974 . Students’ Rights to Their Own Language , National Council of Teachers of English , www.ncte.org/library/nctefiles/groups/cccc...

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... demonstrates one application of an antiracist writing assessment ecology through a practice called “problem posing the nature of judgment and language” and discusses the problem posing of two ecological places in the class. Works Cited AAC&U (Association of American Colleges and Universities...

...Elizabeth Schirmer; Avilah Getzler This article describes a collaborative effort by faculty at two very different institutions to integrate the study of language change into surveys of early British literature. Using a series of structured assignments, the Word Project engages students directly...

...Rachel Herzl-Betz; Hugo Virrueta Abstract Para estudiantes de color who participate in academic research, there is added emotional labor as they make decisions revolving around language, identity, and disclosure. La labor se mantiene invisible para los organizadores de conferencias académicas, y...

...Catherine Mainland In this article, the author explains the habits that she brought to teaching English from the field of second-language acquisition. She began teaching in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where graduate teaching...

... theoretical and practical responses to this situation. Appendices offer specific guidance for teaching the Celtic-language texts now in the major anthologies of English and British literature. The Languages of British Literature and the Stakes of Anthologies Matthieu Boyd As it says in the guest...

...Tara Williams This article proposes three ways of using the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) to encourage students' curiosity about language and develop research and analytical skills in the literature classroom. By considering the OED as an object, including the size and cost of its multivolume...

...Dohra Ahmad; Shondel J. Nero This article examines some of the central paradoxes of vernacular language use in the classroom and suggests methods for converting those paradoxes into productive teaching opportunities. Beginning from a linguistic point of view, the authors discuss the devaluing...

... of the topic. Finally, we grapple with more literal meanings of care by focusing on, per Lennard J. Davis, the language that often accompanies this term. We reconsider care of the body, care for the body, and care about the body to propose some alternate terminology: caring from and caring through . In other...

...Kim Brian Lovejoy; Steve Fox; Scott Weeden Drawing on research in systems theory and their own programmatic efforts to recognize, value, and integrate language differences in first-year composition, the authors argue for a multilevel approach for sustainable and systemic change to occur. Multilevel...

...Missy Watson This article analyzes two of the inevitable messes of translingual scholarship and teaching in composition studies: the criticism that arose from cross-disciplinary conflict with second language writing and the semantic ambiguities that result from the–ism in translingualism...