1. INCLUDING U: BROWN BAG CONVERSATIONS
LANGUAGE DIFFERENCE

2. SERIES MISSION
Develop community among staff, students, and faculty through dialogue, learning, and mutual visioning
Engaging folks around campus in consideration of various experiences and identities in Higher Education, particularly those which may be underrepresented
Provide information from experts in a topic as an introduction to certain lived realities in our campus or local community.
Shed light on present efforts to work towards inclusion related to the topic presented
Spark dialogue about challenges, ideas, concerns, and hopes regarding the development of inclusive practices at NDSU

3. PRESENTERS Sara Johnson, PhD Andrew Tanem Carol Bishop
Assistant Dir of International Student Services Services
International Student & Study Abroad
Andrew Tanem
International Student Advisor & Program Coordinator
International Student & Study Abroad Services
Carol Bishop
Lecturer & Intensive English Language Program Coordinator Department of Modern Languages

4. INTRODUCTIONS “INCLUSION” Who are you? Why are you here?
What do you hope to get from or bring to this conversation?
“INCLUSION”
What does this term mean to you?
What should it look like in action?
What should it not look like in action?

5. LANGUAGE
“If you want to really hurt me, talk bad about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity – I am my language.”
Gloria Anzaldúa

6. LANGUAGE What is your philosophy of language? 1- What is language?
2- What is a language’s relationship to history, time, space, and knowledge?
3- What are the limits of language?
What are your ethics regarding language?

7. Language: Example of a Microaggression
Sara’s slide
“unintended consequences” =
labeling non-English speakers as a ‘problem’ to be solved?
microaggression (back-handed ‘compliment’ about being in United States)

8. Sara’s slide
Source:

9. ATTITUDES TOWARD LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES
Language Policy
English Only Movements
One World, One Language ….Utopia?
World Englishes
“Non-standard” Dialects

10. ATTITUDES TOWARD LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES

11. ATTITUDES TOWARD LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES
Student experience
Cultural persona
Pat: “Half”
Argument RE: Hawaiian Asians
Linguistic persona
L1 vs. L2

12. LANGUAGE DIFFERENCE Developing Proficiency Levels
Myths regarding fluency
Strategies used as beginners
Pantomime
Circumlocution
Silence
Imitation
Strategies used by intermediate to advanced students
Desire for correction vs. communication
Amount of work

14. RESOURCES NDSU Intensive English Language Program
International Student and Study Abroad Services
Disability Services
Human Resources
Community
Fargo Library
Fargo Public Schools
Consider Viewing;
The Dark Side of the Subjunctive

15. QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
What are some realities that we have yet to touch on regarding living in a second language?
What does the impact of living in a different language have on your work at NDSU?
What does this intersection with life in Higher Ed reveal about patterns of exclusion?
What are some practices, actions, and policies that we might take to advance inclusion in light of what we learned today?

16. ありがとう
Obrigado
धन्यवाद
Takk
Pilamaya
Asante
Teşekkür
شكرا
Miigwech 谢谢
Tänan
Hvala
감사합니다
Gracias
Баярлалаа
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17. Including U 2019-20 Sept. 10- First Generation Experiences
Oct. 1- Autism and Higher Ed
Oct. 22- Native Perspectives
Nov. 12- Trans Realities
Dec. 3- Homelessness
Jan. 21- Being Black in Higher Ed
Feb. 11- Domestic Violence
March 3- Latinx Identities and Cultures
March 24- Age Differences
April 21- Being Desi on Campus
(All Sessions from Noon-1pm in the Arikara Room)