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Racial Health Disparities in America by Michelle A. Gourdine
June 29, 2020
In 2012, Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old boy dressed in a hoodie, carrying a bag of Skittles and iced tea while walking through a neighborhood where he “didn’t belong,” was approached and eventually shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a resident on “neighborhood watch.”
Like so many African American parents, I was at once mad, and afraid. Almost immediately, protective instincts kicked in, and my husband and I had “The Talk” with our children, starting with our then fifteen-year-old son.
Imagine a mother and father, having to teach their son—their wide-eyed, PlayStation-playing, manga-cartoon-reading, food-inhaling, too-shy-to-let-his-mom-kiss-him-in-public son—how NOT to be killed by someone who doesn’t know him, yet assumes the worst about him.
Read moreInteraction and Language Learning by Stacey Katz Bourns, Cheryl Krueger, and Nicole Mills
June 26, 2020
What does it mean to be able to communicate? In general, many researchers would say that competent communicators know what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. In his discussion of language acquisition and classroom practice, VanPatten (2017, 3–6) highlights key terms to help instructors better understand the substance of communication: meaning, expression, interpretation, context, negotiation, and purpose. The following paragraphs provide paraphrased descriptions of each.
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