The final assessment for this course is a 7-10 pages narrative that you should put all these academic discussions about language diversities, attitude and perceptions, social justice in conversation with your personal experiences through critical self-reflection of your own language ideologies and those of others around you. The narrative must have at least three distinct references to the reading materials we covered in the class. Find an any community, dialect, a race, or workplace to research the attitude and perceptions toward the dialect or the use of language on such group of people with specific examples.
1. The location of the community of the dialect where it is commonly practiced.
2. History and any specific influence (religious, political, social.) that might have changed their attitude towards some communities or dialects.
3. Current examples (from the media) including microaggressions, racism, movies. etc , list some justifications on the cause and the effect of such incidence(s).
4. How this dialect is presented in education and on the media? Why or why not?
5. Suggestions to shift or eliminate negative attitudes, perceptions or connotations that are associated with the chosen dialect in USA, this could be through education, legislation (policies), media platforms including movies, songs.so on.
There has to be at least three distinct references from two of the books we read this semester
1. “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice” by Ingrid Piller.
2. “English with an Accent” by Rosina Lippi-Green
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