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The sound of inclusion: Why teachers' words matter

  • Written by Christine Mallinson, Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageLanguage matters in every class: English, math, history and science.Rawpixel / Shutterstock.com

There isn’t just one way to sound like a scientist, or to sound like a scholar. Scientists and scholars come from a wide variety of backgrounds and speak in different ways, in different accents, dialects and languages.

In classrooms across the U.S.,...

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