The English Language in America

This week Corrine explains why a monolingual America just ain't gonna happen. She explains the history, the reasoning, and some of the really interesting problems inherent to her mother tongue. Want to learn more? Listen in!

PS. Janet drops one eff bomb toward the end that I literally could not edit out. So sorry!




References

Much of today's references comes from Corrine's years of study in English and linguistics, and working in the English language field for the last decade. Other information can be found at:

Allaire, J. (1977). Foreign Languages and the Founding Fathers. South Atlantic Bulletin, 42(1), 3-10. doi:10.2307/3199048

Camera, L. (16 Oct 2015) Wanted: Bilingual Teachers. USToday. Retreieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/16/us-faces-shortage-of-bilingual-teachers 

Dialect Quiz http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0 

First Voices. Retrieved from http://www.firstvoices.com/en/Kanienkeha-Mohawk-EN/phrase/01d5e103526b07e3/Hello.+How+are+you%3F 

Wilson, R. (2 Dec 2013). What Dialect Do You Speak? A map of American English. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/02/what-dialect-to-do-you-speak-a-map-of-american-english/?utm_term=.30b613c2cb68 

Zong, J. & Batalove, J. (8 March 2017). Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. The Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved from http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#CurrentHistoricalNumbers

Women in Activism

This week Janet tells us all about the history of women in activism. From Versailles to Ancient Rome, women have been movers and shakers...or perhaps we should say Quakers? Want to learn more? Tune in!


References: Coming Soon!

The Joys of Podcasting

So, we're going to have to delay to next week do to a series of silly and then unfortunate events.

I was out of town until Monday on a research trip and completely forgot it was, you know, Monday. I'm on Spring Break, and that might explain a bit. I decided to put off the post until Thursday so I could finish editing, and got to work.

I woke up Wednesday morning with a bricked computer.  Something updated in the overnight and tanked my whole system. It took me, quite literally, all day and most of the evening to get everything back to where it was, and in the process I lost my editing program and edited files.

I managed to save the originals, but the frustration is making me insane. So, I made an executive decision and decided it's better to push the pod off a week than cry trying to make soemthing that's just supposed to be a fun hobby for us.

We'll be back next week on our regular schedule.

Thank you for understanding!

Corrine

Millenials are NOT Digital Natives

This week Corrine explains why she believes that Millenials simply can't be digital natives as they are so often touted to be. Listen to find out why!

References:

Facer, K. & Furlong, R. (2001). Beyond the Myth of the Cyberkid: Young People at the Margins of the Information Revolution. Journal of Youth Studies. 4 (4). Pp 451-469.

Flewitt, R., Messer, D., and Kucirkova, N. (2014). New directions for early literacy in a digital age: the iPad. J. Early Child. Lit. doi: 10.1177/1468798414533560.

Greenstein, S. (2016). How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hutchison, A., Beschorner, B., &Schmidt-Crawford, D. (2012). Exploring the use of the iPad for literacy learning. Read. Teach. 66, 15–23. doi: 10.1002/TRTR.01090

Krcmar, M., and Cingel, D. P. (2014). Parent–child joint reading in traditional and electronic formats. Media Psychology. doi: 10.1080/15213269.2013.840243.

Kucirkova, N. (2014) iPads in Early Education: Separating Assumptions and Evidence. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00715

Mueller, P. A., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2014). The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking. Psychological Science, 25 (6) pp. 1159-1168. doi: 10.1177/0956797614524581