Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to teach several sections of a first-year writing course for multilingual students. Having read the works of Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, Suresh Canagarajah, Juan Guerra, Paul Kei Matsuda, and others, I built a curriculum that held linguistic diversity as the norm, creating numerous opportunities for linguistic negotiation and giving students the opportunity to play with format, style, language, and mode of reading and writing. For example, students read texts that directly confronted code-switching, code-meshing, and non-standard forms of English. Students analyzed hip-hop music (and the corresponding music videos) in multilingual groups,…
Author: Heather Noel Turner
Jennifer Eidum Zinchuk
Heather Noel Turner is a PhD student in WRAC. She is most passionate about computers and writing. Her research seeks to answer questions concerning visual rhetoric, design, and community engagement and knowledge making (in both physical and digital environments).