Students’ Use of Their Own Language: Breaking Down Barriers
Li-Shih Huang, PhD
March 1, 2017
“Language influences thought and action. The words we use to describe things—to ourselves and others—affect how we and they think and act.” (Weimer, 2015).
Learners can be empowered or suppressed by the language(s) used in our classrooms and other learning spaces. Given the increasingly divisive rhetoric
