Culturally Responsive Language

What is Culturally Responsive Language?

• Teacher does not always model, explain, and demonstrate new skills

• Utilizing students background knowledge and providing ways for students to learn

• Teacher does not use visuals

• Teacher does not build upon students' home language to teach terms skills and concepts

Which of these is a way to incorporate culturally responsive language in the classroom?

• Incorporate popular culture

• Form relationships with families and get background knowledge

• Consider your classroom setup

• All of the above

Which of these is not one of the three main objectives to be Culturally Responsive?

• Infuse writing activities into everyday teaching

• Give students opportunities to practice code switching

• Discuss social and political issues

• Recognize the linguistic rules of the unaccepted languages

Which is the definition of language?

• This speaks to the non acceptance of languages not to the lack of legitimacy

• The language utilized in school; commonly Standard English

• The language that is used by family members in the home and others in the community that is different than standard english.

• A legitimate linguistic entity that is defined around the parameters of phonics, markers, grammar, vocab, nonverbal uses, and discourse styles.

Which of the following is the most responsive perspective of culturally responsive language?

• Ethnolinguistic Perspective

• Dialect Perspective

• Deficit Perspective

• Creolist Perspective

Which of the following is the least responsive perspective of culturally responsive language?

• Deficit

• Ethnolinguistic

• Creolist

• Dialect

Which of these is not a rule of unacceptable language?

• Lose the hemogenic view of standard english

• Use acceptable language correctly

• Understand the derivation of the rule in the context of the indigenous language

• Code Switch Appropriately

The following statement is a benefit for what aspect of culturally responsive language: It increases a student’s ability to recognize the differences between Standard English and his or her home language.

• Dialect Perspective

• Effective Writing Strategies

• Unaccepted Language

• Contrastive Analysis

Team Selena or Team Hailey?

• Selena

• Hailey