Activity: Language for Empowerment
Language for Empowerment
Students analyse a text to identify how it uses language with the aim of involving and empowering people.
Sources
‘Why Deaf People Must Write’ by Karen Lloyd (1980s)
Outcomes:
Students understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people
Key Concepts/Vocabulary:
Language used to align the reader or indicate shared assumptions.