1.
After
reading “At Last: The Meaning in Grammar,” I couldn’t help but wonder what
functional grammar looks like in practice (Schleppegrell, 2007). Schleppegrell
lists many benefits in using functional grammar, but I would have gotten more
from the article if it were modeled for me or described in a scenario. How do
you feel about this article? Do you have a clear picture of what this means to
us as urban educators?
2.
“When
we lose a language, says David Harrison of the Living Tongues Institute in
Oregon, we lose centuries of human thinking about time, seasons, sea creatures,
reindeer, edible flowers, mathematics, landscapes, myths, music, the unknown,
and the everyday.”
This
quote really stood out to me, especially after writing our language autobiographies. Language is so
powerful and the mere thought of a language going extinct is unimaginable to
me. However, this only reinforces the hierarchical element of language. For
instance, English is such a popular and dominant language around the world that
it would never become extinct, which leads me to wonder what makes a language like,
Ojibwe, susceptible to extinction?
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