Storying Unequal Englishes Class

Cristina Sánchez-Martín (UW Seattle, English) teaches “ENGL 370 Introduction to English Language”, an undergraduate course for incoming K-12 educators. The course is based on the premise that “the world is already in our classrooms” and frames English as an unequal language in relation to multilingual environments, growing and shifting according to sociomaterial and ideological conditions rather than as a contained language belonging to specific nation-states.

The class helps students to understand how to study language from well-known linguistic branches (phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax) but also from more expansive lenses, such as embodiment, translation, and linguistic landscapes, which offer the theoretical space to develop language knowledge according to the experiences of those who tend to be left aside in the study of language.

Three projects allow students to story situated English within their lives, our class community, and the larger local communities as they engage with others through responsible and accountable research practices. Some of the projects that students have completed include public facing genres, like digital Zines, podcasts, and and videos. Check out some of the students Zine projects below.

Seedlings Zine here

Wave Hello Zine