Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education

Gaillynn Clements is Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University. Dr. Clements has published on Southern English, gendered speech, and the scholarship of teaching and learning in linguistics. Marnie Jo Petray is Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania where she founded, coordinates, and directs the Graduate TESOL Program in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. Dr. Petray has presented and published research in applied linguistics, the scholarship of teaching and learning in linguistics, humor studies, and Krobo Dangme.

• Chapter 1 An Unexpected Irony: Lifting the "Diversity" Wool from our Eyes Gaillynn ClementsChapter 2 Linguistic Bias against ESL Writing Melinda ReicheltChapter 3 "If we don't teach them, who will?": Standard Language Ideology in the University English Classroom Ho’omana Nathan HortonChapter 4 Conflicting ideologies: Language diversity in the composition classroom Sonja LaunspachChapter 5 International Teaching Assistants: Increasing Communicative Awareness and Understanding Katherine Yaw & Okim KangChapter 6 Signs of Oppression in the Academy: The Case of Signed Languages Jon Henner & Octavian RobinsonChapter 7 "Men could get up in front of a classroom and say any old thing…": Faculty Perceptions of Language and Gender in Higher Education Caroline MyrickChapter 8 Country, Color, and Class: Talking Right, Talking White in the Academy Christopher ScottChapter 9 Linguistic Inequality and Sociolinguistic Justice in Campus Life: The Need for Programmatic Intervention Walt Wolfram & Stephany DunstanChapter 10 Promoting Pidgin at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Christina HigginsChapter 11 Languaging Matters Marnie Jo Petray & Gaillynn Clements