Language and Identity
1. Does language shape your identity? How so? Why? Or Why not?
2. What things about you or your personality change from one of your languages to another?
3. What are some of the most challenging things to do or think about or express in your more "limited" language? Give specific examples.
4. Give me another specific example of a time when you would respond or act differently in you were using your more "comfortable" language.
5. Do you feel more comfortable if you have (or could have) a friend in class who speaks your more "comfortable" language? Why/why not?
6. Do you think that professors should allow students to speak in their more "comfortable" language during class time? Why/why not?
7. Do you agree with Rodriguez when he says "English only" (he is referring to the public language when he says "English")