KOTESOL International Conference 2016
(Concurrent Session)
Jocelyn Wright, Mokpo National University
What Should We Call "Them"?
Abstract
Language constantly changes with cultural and societal developments, so it is sometimes hard to keep up! Yet, because it is used to label individuals and express identities, it is important to consider within the context of multicultural education, which aims to promote inclusion and combat discrimination. If teachers and students have not had much experience with diversity, they may be unaware of the language used to cultivate meaningful and constructive inclusive dialogue. This presentation intends to discuss the areas of multicultural education a selection of 'western' universities focus on in their guidelines for inclusive language, so that attendees will leave more aware of current inclusive language trends and be better able to choose appropriate language to identify and teach their students to talk about others.
Biographicals
Jocelyn Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mokpo National University. She has been teaching practical English in Korea at the university level for over 7 years. In addition to teaching here, she has taught in French-Canada, the Dominican Republic, and France. She has an honor's degree in linguistics, a master's degree in counselling and training in education and is also CELTA-certified. She is actively involved in the Gwangju-Jeonnam chapter of KOTESOL, where she founded and still co-facilitates the local Reflective Practice Special Interest Group (RP SIG). More recently, she launched the newly formed Social Justice (Critical Educators in Korea) SIG.
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