Shaughnesssay can be related to the monolingual model because she taught her students the basics of prescriptive English. Harris stated that “while politically liberal, the plan of work sketched out in Errors and Expectations is in many ways quite intellectually conservative (105). [or maybe just practical?—I interject…]. While Shaughnessay had taken on a population that was not part of the dominant discourse community, she simply tried to include her students (of different classes and races and languages) b/c teaching them the standard, but she didn’t challenge the standard, so I would agree that she was not politically liberal either, still she was responding to the changes that open enrollment caused to happen to higher education at that time [ie. the democratization of education]…
(then I read Ash’s work)
Ash wrote about Shaughnessy too, but he categorized her as following traditional multilingual model, while I thought she was following more of a monolingual model...
Good activity: Having another read your daybook and then respond to it in your own journal.