Using Our Own Language in Class

Hanan Saadah

English 1100_35

Professor Young

2015, September 14th

Our Own Language in Our Class

     In the article, "Students' Right to Their Own Language", it clearly discusses the argument of whether or not students should use their nurtured dialect in essays. I believe that students should have the right to use their own language in an academic setting appropriately. I emphasize appropriately because if you choose to use your nurtured language to express yourself on paper or just generally in class, you must also understand that you have the responsibility to keep it clean fitting. If your language does not make sense in your essay, you will not be rewarded for the use of it. The use of language needs to flow into your paper and make sense as to why it is being used in those specific moments. Use of language can make or break you. No student should be withheld from using their language, it is an opportunity to make their paper extra special and that should never be passes up. We should encourage expressing yourself in unusual manners. The students should just understand that it shall be used with strategically and with cleverness. Use of a student's language can be very beneficial to their paper, it is “false advice for speakers and writers” to think that they cannot write in a certain way even if it expresses who they are. All teachers should “respect diversity” among their students. It is not okay to play favorites when it comes to different people's dialects. “We have also taught, many of us, as though the "English of educated speakers," the language used by those in power in the community, had an inherent advantage over other dialects”. This is just so no right; everyone should be seen on the same level with their certain dialect out of judgment.

Modern American slang is used everyday by us casually, in essays however...it should be used mindfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXq7a37NHI