Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
3-2024
Abstract
This chapter describes the work of three linguists working in communication departments at two community colleges in the City University of New York system (CUNY) to counter deficit approaches toward dialectal variation in the field of communication studies (and beyond). The authors’ approach includes professional presentations, curricular redesign, identifying linguistic discrimination in textbooks, and conducting professional development workshops and seminars. They believe that the things they are doing are easily reproducible, so they are shared in this chapter in the hopes that more people will get actively involved in reducing/eliminating such harmful classroom pedagogies that involve deficit views of dialectal and accent variation in educational settings.
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Comments
This chapter was originally published in Decolonizing Linguistics, edited by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197755259.001.0001
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