CodeMeshing and Writing about Real World Topics Opportunity and Obligation Suzanne D Woodring University of Rochester CodeMeshing Defined Codemeshing is a purposeful and rhetorical strategy that blends languages local varieties dialects voices or registers with a dominant language ID: 762903
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Code-Meshing and Writing about Real World Topics: Opportunity and Obligation Suzanne D Woodring University of Rochester
Code-Meshing Defined Code-meshing is a purposeful and rhetorical strategy that blends languages, local varieties, dialects, voices, or registers with a dominant language. Code-meshing (when compared to code-switching) suggests a sophisticated and purposeful act by the speaker or writer, rather than that of compromise or ‘giving in’ to the norms of dialectical appropriateness and acceptableness in ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ contexts, respectively (Young, Barrett, Young-Rivera, & Lovejoy (2014). I argue that we have an obligation to prepare our students with a variety of rhetorical tools so that they can be effective communicators about topics of importance in the real world.
From Academic, Standard, and Monolingual to Customized, Enhanced, and Multilingual 4 things are needed: A situation they are passion about and able to respond to An authentic audience – one who cares about what they have to say Rhetorical tools to best meet the needs of that audience The space in the classroom to explore these tools and how they work to persuade a particular audience and even how they are ineffective when directed at a different audience
Main Takeaways Students may not have another opportunity to take advantage of code-meshing when communicating to an audience of their choice. Valuing academic language – as well as multiple languages, dialects, voices, and registers – creates a space for more than just unidimensional writing instruction. Students are invested in writing about topics that are important to them and to an audience of their choice.
References Young, V. A., Barrett, R., Young-Rivera, Y., & Lovejoy, K. B. (2014). Other peoples’ English: Code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy . New York: Teachers College Press.