Some of the main topics we talked about were code – meshing, code – switching, monolingualism, bilingualism, multilingualism, and language in general. Prior to this unit, I did not know what code – meshing or code – switching meant but once I knew what it meant, I could really relate to it. I also learnt that White Mainstream English is considered the universal language pretty much everywhere and there are so many other dialects of the same language that are considered “informal” which is kind of dumb. Everything that we have learnt so far is important to me because I speak four languages and when I moved to the States, I was always embarrassed of my different accent and tried everything I could to speak more like the people here until I did. I think it is very important to consider all the different kinds of languages that people speak everywhere and not put them off as being “informal” or “unimportant” because that kind of speaking is how they were brought up speaking and telling them that is not the right way of speaking is just wrong. I think the fact that we are allowed to write in our dialects in this class is super cool!
Language Wrap Up
