LibGuides: Bi-scriptual Collection: Multilingual ECU Project

Multilingual Resources

The following resources were compiled as part of the Multilingual ECU Project.

Deborah O and Tara Wren coordinated the Multilingual ECU Project with a group of students and faculty at ECUAD. They describe the project on their website:

"The Multilingual ECU project advocates for an inclusive learning environment that supports linguistic and cultural diversity. We are looking at ways to better support multilingualism on our campus through shared resources and dialogue. We aim to support multilingual students who face barriers to education and inclusion and those teachers and staff who work with them. We work within an anti-oppression, social justice framework that acknowledges the larger systemic forces that create social inequality in our community."

They worked with students and faculty to create this pamphlet, Our Multilingual Classrooms: Insights + Approaches from ECU Teachers and Students

Our Multilingual Classrooms pamphlet

Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Call Number: ZA4230 .N63 2018
Publication Date: 2018-02-20
Safiya Umoja Noble’s research on algorithms and bias show how online search results are far from neutral. While machines and algorithms are thought to be neutral, the reality is that the people creating algorithms are full of biases. Noble explores internet searching and how racism is embedded in the results impacting what we see and believe.
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education by Shondel J. Nero (Editor)
Call Number: PE1128 .A2 D444 2006
ISBN: 0805846581
Publication Date: 2006-03-08
"This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others. The number of such students is increasing as a result of the spread of English, internal and global migration, and increased educational access. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education offers:
*a sociohistorical perspective on language spread and variation;
*analysis of related issues such as language attitudes, identities, and prescribed versus actual language use; and
*practical suggestions for pedagogy."--provided by publisher
Together by Richard Sennett
Call Number: HD2963 .S46 2012
ISBN: 9780300188288
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Discusses why people tend to avoid social engagement with those unlike themselves, why increased cooperation is necessary to make society prosper, and the skills necessary for strengthening cooperation.

Florini, Sarah (2014), “Tweets, Tweeps, and Signifyin’: Communication and Cultural Performance on “Black Twitter””, Television & New Media, 15 (3): 223–237, doi:10.1177/1527476413480247

Linnes, Kathleen (1998), “Middle-class AAVE versus middle-class bilingualism: Contrasting speech communities”, American Speech, 73 (4): 339–367, JSTOR 455582, doi:10.2307/455582

Ogbu, John U. (1999), “Beyond Language: Ebonics, Proper English, and Identity in a Black-American Speech Community”, American Education Research Association, 36 (2): 147–184, doi:10.3102/00028312036002147

Pullum, Geoffrey K. (March 27, 1997), “Language that dare not speak its name”, Nature, 386 (6623): 321–322, Bibcode:1997Natur.386..321P, doi:10.1038/386321a0, retrieved August 27, 2010

Smitherman, Geneva (1999), “CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights”, College Composition and Communication, 50 (3): 349–376, JSTOR 358856, doi:10.2307/358856

Wheeler, Rebecca; Swords, Rachel (2006), Code-switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms, Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English

Nunberg, Geoffrey (1997), “Double Standards”, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 15 (3): 667–675, doi:10.1023/A:1005815614064, retrieved 4 March 2010

Auerbach, Jess. “What a new university in Africa is doing to decolonise social sciences” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/what-a-new-university-in-africa-is-doing-to-decolonise-social-sciences-77181

Ray, Brian and Connie Kendall Theado. “Composition’s “Global Turn”: Writing Instruction in Multilingual/Translingual and Transnational Contexts.” Composition Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 10-12. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.ecuad.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=115259520&site=eds-live.

Kiernan, Julia, et al. “Negotiating Languages and Cultures: Enacting Translingualism through a Translation Assignment.” Composition Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 89-107. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.ecuad.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=115259525&site=eds-live.

Shapiro, Shawna, et al. “Teaching for Agency: From Appreciating Linguistic Diversity to Empowering Student Writers.” Composition Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 31-52. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.ecuad.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=115259522&site=eds-live.

OCAD, Inclusive Teaching: Supporting ESL Students at OCAD https://www.ocadu.ca/Assets/content/teaching-learning/WLC/WAC/Inclusive+Teaching-Supporting+ESL+Students+at+OCAD+University.pdf

University of Washington, Writing Center https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/university-writing-program/writing-center

University of Washington, Putting Writing at the Center of Inclusivity https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/news/article/putting-writing-center-inclusivity