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Todays topic

• Summary and Integration

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Announcements

• I will grade, but not comment on your final
  drafts (e.g. no editing).
• You are welcome to come and pick up your papers
  they will be available in my office through the
  last week of class, Fall 2009. I will be on
  sabbatical, so please contact me if you want to
  come and pick it up.
• Grades will be posted no later than Friday, May
  15.
• No scheduled break tonight take one as needed.

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Quick questions or quandaries?
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Small group activity

• Consider the different quotes provided in the
  PowerPoint. Pick several that seem to especially
  speak to the group members and discuss them,
  using the following questions as a suggested
  guide
• What seems to be important about these quotes?
• To what extent do you agree or disagree with
  these quotes? How so and why?
• What do they say to you as a educator or future
  educator of second language learners?

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If we want to ensure that all our children have
the same opportunities in life, alternative
language education should stop and English should
be acknowledged once and for all as the official
language of the United States.
(Bob Dole, 1995, during his 1996 Presidential
Campaign)
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If she starts first grade with the other
children and cannot even speak the language that
the teachers and the other children speak, and
shes a full-blood American citizen, youre
abusing that child and youre relegating her to
the position of a house maid.
(Texas State District Judge Samuel C. Kaiser,
cited in Lyons, 1995)
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Individual educators, however, are by no means
powerless they have many opportunities within
the school to challenge the operation of the
societal power structure...When educators define
their roles in terms of promoting social justice
and equality of opportunity, their interactions
with culturally diverse pupils are more likely to
embody a transformative potential that challenges
coercive relations of power as they are
manifested in the school context.
(Cummins, 1997, p. 109)
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A common element in the warnings about diversity
in countries around the world is that they
invariably problematise the culture, attitudes
and language use of the subordinated group, which
is expected to become invisible and inaudible
either through assimilation or exclusion.
Diversity becomes a problem only when
subordinated groups refuse to accept their
preordained status and demand rights...
(Cummins, 1997, p. 107)
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...No classroom or school is immune from the
influence of the coercive power relations that
characterize societal debates about diversity and
national identity. On a moment-to-moment basis
educators, in their interactions with culturally
and linguistically diverse pupils, sketch their
ideological stance in relation to issues of
diversity, identity and power. The science and
practice of pedagogy is never neutral in relation
to these issues in spite of its frequent
self-portrayal as innocent and focused only on
learning outcomes.
(Cummins, 1997, p. 107)
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The language of the conqueror in the mouth of
the conquered is ever the speech of a slave
From Tacitus
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So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly
about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin
to linguistic identity -- I am my language. Until
I can take pride in my language, I cannot take
pride in myself. Until I can accept as legitimate
Chicano Texas Spanish, Tex-Mex and all the other
languages I speak, I cannot accept the legitimacy
of myself.
(Anzaldúa, 1987, p. 59)
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Who is to say that robbing a people of its
language is less violent than war?
(Ray Gwyn Smith, in Anzaldúa, 1987, p. 53)
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Question of the Day

• How do public opinions and beliefs about
  bilinguals, bilingual education and immigration
  impact you as an educator in your ability to
  provide appropriate instruction to second
  language learners?

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Circle of Voices

• We will take one hour to go around the room,
  sharing whatever you would like about what YOU
  have learned through your explorations and study
  this semester. (Note its all about YOU). Well
  start with whoever wants to start first, and then
  go left or right from there. No comments or
  discussion, just a chance for each person to
  share what theyd like.
• Please monitor the time, so that everyone gets a
  chance to share before 600.

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Looking ahead

• Summer Vacation!

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