“I Want You to Want Me Too”: Enacting Linguistic Justice in Language & Grammar Courses
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Journal of Language & Literacy Education
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This manuscript uses Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, The Heart Part 5, and my personal experiences teaching English Language Arts (secondary and English education), specifically grammar and language, to demonstrate the importance of linguistic justice (Baker-Bell, 2020a) in ELA classrooms. Baker-Bell’s (2020a) framework of linguistic justice is utilized as the foundation for being, learning and teaching in my grammar and language courses. Throughout this manuscript, I share narratives about my personal experiences teaching and researching as a way to reflect on ways to enact linguistic justice in English Education grammar courses. I interweave Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics to the song The Heart Part 5, to guide reflection and analysis of the practices I have used to enact linguistic justice in English education grammar courses. The manuscript concludes with best practices for ELA educators to enact linguistic justice in their classrooms.
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This article was originally published in Journal of Language & Literacy Education. The version of record is available at: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Porcher_JOLLE2023_final.pdf.
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Porcher, Kisha. “‘I Want You to Want Me Too’: Enacting Linguistic Justice in Language & Grammar Courses.” Journal of Language & Literacy Education 19, no. 1 (2023). http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Porcher_JOLLE2023_final.pdf.