Vijay Ramjattan
@Vijay_Ramjattan
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream @CTLOISE / PhD from @OISEUofT / Mainly examining the intersections of language, race, & work / 🇹🇹
Joined September 2018
If you like my tweets imagining an anti-racist pronunciation pedagogy, then you should like my latest article in ELT Journal: It is open access, so there is no excuse not to read it!
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Language policing done by those in power is about maintaining the dominant narrative.
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Companies were once like, “Diversity is our strength.” Now they are like, “We need to make sure that everyone knows that diversity was never our priority.”
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RT @Abdullah_Om3r03: Hello world I'm really embarrassed for you to ask for help This will be the last time I ask you for help, my family.…
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A lot of workplace discrimination is linguistic discrimination.
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Do not forget that language is another way to racialize people.
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Sadly, worker rights are not always compatible with the "values" of an organization.
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Accent hierarchies are another way to articulate racial hierarchies.
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RT @Mirna_elhelbawi: Tonight, Most of the areas in Gaza will be TOTALLY CUT OFF TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES due to lack of fuel. ONLY people…
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RT @Palestinedaily1: Support my sister Fatima who suffers from #Cancer please , any amount will help us provide her the medicine and the ox…
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An example of linguistic racism at work is what constitutes (un)professional communication.
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"Low-skilled immigrant" is a policy creation, not an actual person.
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No new year's resolution should be to change your accent to satisfy others.
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The "native English speaker" is less of a linguistic role model and more of a figure that gatekeeps what constitutes "correct" English.
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RT @Dr_SaebGaza: 😭I am so frustrated I am dying of hunger and no one is helping me Yesterday I couldn't buy food because of the high price…
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"Professionalism" is what keeps a workforce in line, not what creates a welcoming environment for all.
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From a raciolinguistic perspective, accent discrimination *is* racial discrimination, not simply a proxy for it.
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