Improve reading and text analyzing skills. Learn how speakers of French and English engaged in a power struggle between the languages and the social systems they supported. Learn how other languages, including Kréyol and those from Africa, were suppressed. Learn how suppressed languages can be means of resistance. Learn how suppressed languages survive.
Recommended level: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
1. Languages of Power: Dominance and Suppression
2. Reading and Analyzing Texts on Language and Power