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Students' Right to Their Own Language

History of SRTOL

Conference on College Composition and Communication

SRTOL and Pedagogy

  • 1950s: Kenneth Knickerbocker and Donald Lloyd
  • 1960s: Social Movements
  • 1970s: Language Rights Resolution
  • Rhetoric
  • Ebonics/ AAVE
  • Critical Language Pedagogy

We affirm the students' right to their own patterns and varieties of language-the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which they find their own identity and style. Language scholars long ago denied that the myth of a standard American dialect has any validity. The claim that any one dialect is unacceptable amounts to an attempt of one social group to exert its dominance over another. Such a claim leads to false advice for speakers and writers, and immoral advice for humans. A nation proud of its diverse heritage and its cultural and racial variety will preserve its heritage of dialects. We affirm strongly that teachers must have the experiences and training that will enable them to respect diversity and uphold the right of students to their own language.

What's Wrong With This?

Two Issues

Moving Forward/Future Research

  • Rhetoric and Critical Language Pedagogy≠≠≠≠Teacher Education
  • Ebonics/AAVE≠≠≠≠Immigrants and Second Language Learners
  • Multiliteracies
  • Rhetoric(s)
  • Multimodal Composition
  • Cyberspace

In the 39 years since SRTOL was affirmed by CCCC, the debate around SRTOL has not moved from the two questions of language rights and pedagogy.

  • Do students have a right to their own language?
  • What does SRTOL look like in actual classroom practice?
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