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@Abby78574105 @DrPorcher @ProfeAustin Hi Abby! Nice to virtually meet you! I absolutely agree on its importance. Lucky to have been opened up to this reality the past few months #teacheredumatters

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@lauren_petrone @DrPorcher I agree with this Lauren! I’ve often caught myself in the same situation and want to start holding my tongue. #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher Ways I can enact linguistic justice in my personal language is by educating those around me on the realities of multiple grammars as well as opening myself up to books and articles written by authors who have a different worldly view than I do #teacheredumatters

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@juliagoldsteinn @DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell I agree!! Correcting students for the way that they speak can cause a lot of earlier issues surrounding insecurity

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell (2) by correcting students who feel the need to put other students down for speaking differently then they do #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell (1) Linguistic justice in a grammar class looks like a safe environment for students of all ages to speak in the ways they know how and are comfortable to them. It is teaching students that there is no one correct way of speaking and... #teacheredumatters

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@LichtenAlexis @DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell It’s such a sad truth of our world today! We are being forced into a single box instead of celebrating where we or others come from.

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell (3) or to obtain a certain job in the future. This can cause students to fall into feelings of imposter syndrome since they are forced to become a different version of themselves to be taken seriously in a world where their language is viewed as inferior. #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell (2) and “uneducated” while mainstream English is the “proper” way of speaking. It forces Black students to “code switch” (pg. 29) which requires the students under attack to switch their way or speaking to “White Mainstream English” to avoid stereotyping #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @ProfeAustin Hi everyone!! My name is Mia Rago and I’m a junior English major at the University of Delaware! #teacheredumatters

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@MaryPerfect2 @DrPorcher @dr_s_bertrand Great point Mary!! We need teachers who are willing to shed the confinement’s of the text books and teach their students what’s really going on! #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @dr_s_bertrand We all have a responsibility to recognize, as humans, that no one should be superior to another. We can disrupt this thought process through education by teaching students there is not one correct way to speak; that where we come from make us who we are #teacheredumatters

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@SigmundMatt @DrPorcher @dr_s_bertrand Hey Matt! I’m with you, this course has opened my eyes up tremendously to potential solutions to fix this issue #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @dr_s_bertrand Anti-Blackness is woven into my understanding of grammar prior to this course due to being taught that grammar is only what you find in a textbook, rather than what is used in real life experience #teacheredumatters

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@SarahShap19 @DrPorcher Hey Sarah! This is a great point that I frustratingly relate to through my past education. In my experience, it was an unsaid thing that if someone talked different than you, they were “different” and “less educated” #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher Throughout this course, I have been challenged to look at grammar outside of my own experience. April Baker-Bell’s “Linguistic Justice” has assisted me greatly in understanding the deeper meaning of the course content at hand #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @dr_s_bertrand Hi all! I am Mia Rago and I am an English major at the University of Delaware #teacheredumatters

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#teacheredumatters After reading our class definition of grammar, I would add that student’s knowledge of grammar can sometimes go deeper than a classroom setting due to bilingual households and the use of mother tongues.

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@DrPorcher Thank you Dr. P!! Have a great rest of your week :)