Whether you’re an undergraduate student, graduate student, administrative staff or faculty at UM, this page provides resources for you regarding issues of language diversity and discrimination. Go to the bottom of the page if you are a teacher looking for advice or if you are someone in search of a consultant to contact.
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Words and social norms
This section is currently under construction. It will deals with words and innovation, like singular they and why people are using partner as opposed to boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife
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Code-switching and multilingualism
This section is currently under construction and will contain resources dealing with code-switching and the benefits of multilingualism.
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Language in higher education
This section is currently under construction. These resources will deal specifically with language in higher education
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Language and identity
This section is currently under construction. It will provide resources dealing with how language contributes to identity as a whole as well as more specific identities, like race, gender, and region of origin.
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General Language, Prejudice, & Discrimination
This link will take you to a viewable document with a variety of sources that will allow you to explore how prejudice and discrimination can manifest through language. These articles, videos, books, etc. deal both the prejudice and discrimination based on a speaker’s language (or dialect or accent) and how people use language to discriminate…
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Talk to a consultant
Online resources are great. But sometimes it’s just easier to find the answers and resources you’re looking for from real people. Below is a list of language consultants at the University of Michigan who are ready and waiting to talk to you, meet with you, or present a guest lecture for your class/student group about…
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For Teachers
For everyone from first-time GSIs to veteran instructors, this page is here to help you work through language issues common to all classrooms and across all disciplines. This page is currently under construction. It will have resources to answer specific questions. Our hope is also to include lesson plans and other information for teachers looking…
