Language Diversity and Language loss

2. Questions
Does the free market dictate the lack of
linguistic diversity in our schools?
Furthermore, why do we let neoliberal
ideologies frame our curricula in public
schools?

4. Should it be completely up to minoritized
peoples such as Native American communities
in the U.S. to reverse language shift? Can our
allies be found in public schools?
Questions

6. In deconstructing Labov’s concept of the ‘social
matrix of the asymmetric’, how have
inequalities such as segregation established
and maintained negative stereotypes of
language degradation and malformation such
as in the case of African American Vernacular
English in the U.S?
Questions

8. Just like in the case of African American
Vernacular English and Caribbean Creole
Englishes, negative stereotypes of Spanglish are
that it is impure, malformed, or degraded how
are these stereotypes perpetuated through
school ideologies of correct language use
especially regarding written literacy standards?
Question

9. References
• Changamire, M. M. (2015). African-american english: Structure,
history and use. The Journal of Race & Policy, 11(1), 59.
• Fishman, J. A. (1991). Reversing language shift: Theoretical and
empirical foundations of assistance to threatened languages.
Clevedon;Philadelphia;: Multilingual Matters.
• Luke, A. Luke, C. & Graham, P. W. (2007). Globalization,
Corporatism, and Critical Language Education. International
Multilingual Research Journal. 1(1).
• Martinez, R.A. Hikida, M, & Durán, L. (2014).How dual language
teachers make sense of everyday translanguaging.International
Multilingual Research Journal. 41 (2).
• TED Talk by Patricia Ryan