LANGUAGE & DIVERSITY IN K-12 EDUCATION

The Language & Diversity in K-12 Education Initiative is an Interdisciplinary (Linguistics, Education, Speech and Hearing Science, Spanish) graduate student effort to bring theories about language into the K-12 classroom to address issues of discrimination, inequality and identity.

We are making select Power Points publicly available here in the hopes that they will be useful for educators and for others who research language and are interested in making their own connections between their research and community. Please feel free to distribute these materials as widely as you choose. If you would like additional materials, please contact me by email. 

• Language Attitudes Part I: Standard and nonstandard language - Staci Defibaugh, Anita Greenfield, Kate Lyons, Brittany Frieson

• Language Attitudes Part II: Language Ideology - Lydia Catedral, Farzad Karimzad, Kate Lyons and Brittany Frieson

• Myths and facts about Bilingualism - Sara Ann Mason, Itxaso Rodriguez, Lydia Catedral and Brittany Frieson

• The Language of Respect - Created by Lydia Catedral, Staci Defibaugh, Anita Greenfield, Kate Lyons and Brittany Frieson

• Why language testing matters for the non-language classroom - Farzad Karimzad, Sara Ann Mason, Jacqlyn Merchant

• Spanglish - Ji Young Kim, Kate Lyons, Itxaso Rodriguez & Brittany Frieson

• Language attitudes & cross-cultural communication: A workshop for school administrators - Brittany Frieson, Lydia Catedral