Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Dec 2023 Open Access

A Rhetoric of Accent Fear and the Experiences of Multilingual Teachers of Writing

Eda Özyeşilpınar ; Mohammed Sakip lddrisu

Abstract

This article focuses on the lived experiences of multilingual writing teachers and presents what we, the authors, call “A Rhetoric of Accent Fear,” which introduces accent fear as a form of linguistic racism. Through this framework, we reflect on our stories of accent fear as multilingual writing teachers; we practice forming relational connections across our experiences; and we use this relational connection to offer strategies for other multilingual rhetoric and writing scholars and teachers to navigate these sites of tension and in turn, challenge students’ accent fears.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2023-12-14
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10.59236/rjv23i1pp6-35
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