Promoting Gender and Ethnicity

Part A: Summary. (1000 words; 15% of your final grade)

Reflect on a school or institutional context that you are a part of and consider how it promotes gender and ethnicity, and encourages students to deploy the totality of their sociolinguistic repertoires. In your reflection, consider the linguistic landscape of the classroom/school/institution including the language use there the activities that individuals engage in, and the talk that occurs.

Identify the formal and informal unspoken policies at this school/institution and think about how the school or institutional language policy might change to embrace multilingualism and diversity and empower individuals within this school/institution while retaining its sense of place. Develop a set of ideas and initiatives to help promote multilingual identity in this place and provide rationales for these.

Write a 1000 word essay summarizing the current context and the set of ideas and initiatives that you would like to develop and the reasons for this. Your reasons should be supported by literature in the field.

Assessment 2A: Key Ideas (1000 words; 15% of your final grade)