Along with the exploration of AAVE in class, I have learned a lot about how a specific language is discussed within various context such as education, literature and culture. It is really difficult and dreary for me to explore those ideas at the beginning of this class. In order to accomplish assignments, I need to read and analyze some obscure scholarly articles(at least for me because I have never encountered this field before), search additional information and integrate them into my essay to make a meaningful argument. However, after a period of time, there were several issues and ideas gradually coming out and capturing my interest. For example, how to use a specific language to construct a literacy autobiography; how to appropriate the language into digital environment and how composition studies addresses a language. There are so many implications of these questions: the social viewpoints about the validity of a language relates to its specific features, the relationship between appropriation of language and cultural preservation, and the influences of attitude on language education. These are just some typical ideas which plays a vital role in our social and academic lives. There are still many things waiting for us to dig out.
For this task, I will narrow down my focus on AAVE and composition studies to inform people like me (students) that instead of avoiding and resisting vernacular language education due to its complexity and obscurity, we should pay much more attention to it so as to figure out its implications and utilize these implications to benefit our social and academic lives. In order to achieve my goal, I will draw several course readings relate to academic field like Myth Education: Rationale and Strategies for Teaching against Linguistic Prejudice. It can provide me some typical examples of the misunderstandings of AAVE to evolve and develop my argument. Moreover, I will search some online article to concrete my ideas to make them more practical and interesting. More detail is being processed.
What specific points will you pull from Zuidema and other readings to convey your theme? We also need to know a bit more about the actual project itself. While your target audience is students (college students, right?), you'll need to select a platform and 4 genres to compose with this target audience in mind. Will you compose a website for students? A magazine? A PowerPoint to be presented to incoming students at orientation? Something else?
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