SPEAKER: The advice I would give to educators who are teaching
this course would be to first, the class had a very technical
component in terms of the readings-- maybe not--
it had a very--
one of the components of the class
was very focused on having readings that really opened up
the discussions.
A lot of these were taken from different sources,
different-- some from theoretical linguistics,
to just general readings from things like James Baldwin,
or open op-eds from newspapers.
I think having a strong--
I think having a lot of reading material
that can strike from different places
but that also is very good or that
gives to a lot of thinking, I think
that's something that really was one of the best things I
like about this course.
The second was-- is how this course is also
a place for dialogue to examine ourselves.
Since we all speak a language, we all
have a sense of identity.
So thinking about all these things with--
from our point of view or from our lives is very important.
So being able to have a space of discussion,
a space in which people can tell their own stories,
probably for most-- a good part of the class,
I think that's one of the essential parts to making this
a truly learning experience that helps you read the word--
and read the world and not just the word.