Christine Mallinson

                Participant II describes a service-learning initiative, a graduate course on language and race/ethnicity.  In the course, students learned about the relationships between language, race, and ethnicity and about the patterned and rule-governed language structures in dialects spoken by racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. Outside the course, students also worked with high school teachers at a small charter school in Baltimore, MD.  In this partnership, the graduate students interviewed the charter school’s teachers and then designed and implemented a “Dialects in Schools” workshop that took into account the linguistic diversity at their school and addressed the teachers’ and high school students’ sociolinguistic needs.