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CCCC's Role in the Struggle for Language Rights

Recounts the activist history of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in working toward a more democratic valuing of language diversity by both teachers and the public. Focuses on two organizational policies of CCCC, the "Students' Right" resolution of 1974 and the "National Language Policy" of 1988, incorporating articles and commentaries on language from this journal. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Smitherman, Geneva
• Date Published: Feb
• Journal/Secondary Title: College Composition and Communication
• Number: 3
• Volume: 50
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Dialects
• Subject: Educational History
• Subject: Educational Trends
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: English Only Movement
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Language Attitudes
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Official Languages
• Subject: Politics of Education
• Subject: Standard Spoken Usage
• Subject: Theory Practice Relationship

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