Please answer ONE of the following questions in a 500-1000 word response. You are encouraged to read the responses of your classmates and respond to them.
1. Canagarajah asks (on p. 220): “Is it proper to encourage and facilitate the use of a language that is tainted with a history of global domination, colonizing other languages and communitites with its values?”
(a) Summarize Canagarajah’s answer to this question.
(b) Answer this question yourself–Do you agree or disagree with Canagarajah? Why?
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2. What does Johns mean by the “socioliterate” classroom? Summarize this apprach. How could you apply this approach in your own classroom?
