Intersections of Language and Race for English Language Learners

Tonda Liggett, Washington State University Vancouver
2009 Northwest Journal of Teacher Education  
Underlying the intersection of language and race is a language ideology that Shuck (2001) calls "the ideology of nativeness," an Us-versus-Them division of native and nonnative speakers of a language that are perceived as mutually exclusive, uncontested, and identifiable. The basis of such a model holds that speech communities are naturally monolingual and monocultural, so that one language is associated with one nation (Gal & Irvine, 1995; Wiley & Lukes, 1996) . The binary native-nonnative
more » ... gories that emerge from this monolingual model not only frame social hierarchies of race, class, and ethnicity, they also inform existing cultural models of
doi:10.15760/nwjte.2009.7.1.4 fatcat:fh6jkmbkenepbkfhrzrdwhhopm