Cultivating a Rhetorical Sensibility in the Translingual Writing Classroom

College English Jan 2016

Cultivating a Rhetorical Sensibility in the Translingual Writing Classroom

Juan C. Guerra

Abstract

This essay argues that students must call on their rhetorical sensibilities each time they sit down to write instead of automatically assuming that engaging in code-meshing is the appropriate response to every writing situation. It also encourages pedagogical efforts among teachers that invite students to locate translingualism in its larger contextual relationship with monolingualism and multlingualism, two other approaches to language difference that inform the teaching of writing. In the end, the essay suggests, students must take into consideration how each of these approaches to language difference influences the various decisions they are required to make in the writing classroom.

Journal: College English
Published: 2016-01-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201627653
Open Access: Closed
Topics: translingualism

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