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Reading Part C – Annotated Bibliography Topic: Flattening English standardization – improving accessibility, communication, code-switching in the internet age Al-Kadi, Abdu M. Talib and Rashad Ali Ahmed. "Evolution of English in the Internet Age."             A holistic approach to English language evolution, citing historical language shifts, 20 th -century English imperialism. Differentiation between internetese and textese (internet English and text English, respectively). Broad-scope summary of major research in the field, rather than new information. Suleman, Nazia. "Impact of SMS Speak on the Formal Writings of the Students."             A study of Pakistani faculty and students who use English as L2. Concludes that SMS English use leads to degeneration of standard English on academic work. Notably, the disappearance of the ‘absent author’ that characterizes f...

 In my experience as the English Language Learning specialist, I’ve supported mostly First Nations students who speak English as their first language but use a nonstandard dialect. This is considered a deficit and the Ministry of Education provides extra funding for these students as if they were speakers of foreign languages. Why? Well, to be quite honest: because it’s the government that made them like that. The nonstandard “Rez English” is a direct result of the genocide of the First Nations peoples, especially those who experienced the Residential School system. These schools were meant to eradicate the native indigenous languages, but they did not succeed in replacing that language with English. The survivors of Residential Schools now no longer speak their native language fluently, nor English. There was no philosophy of second language acquisition at Residential Schools: you use English or you don’t communicate at all. English became the language of trauma, and yet it was ...

Reading Review Part A  What might I want to study in this course? Here's my google history for this afternoon: >  media literacy > what is digital literacy > what is web 2.0 > what is after web 2.0 > what is semantic web > internet linguistics > adhd thought process > relatable adhd memes > david crystal internet linguistics > gretchen mccullouch because internet > wired magazine linguistics > lingthusiasm podcast > voldemorting > seo > economist linguistics technology > hackers movie quotes > hacker manifesto > phrack magazine > what is populism > darvo > Goebbels strategy > Big lie > Goebbels accuse the other side > internet regionalism > memespeak My main intellectual hobby is linguistics and the study of language. Applied linguistics, specifically Teaching ESL, was my concentration in my first undergrad degree. Later, I used every opportunity for...