Code-switching, heritage language, and the words we carry
Students explore how language connects us to identity, family, and culture — and what it means to navigate between languages or dialects. Through a personal narrative about a student who moves between two language worlds and a poem about a grandfather's fading Tagalog, students examine the emotional stakes of linguistic identity, the concept of code-switching, and what survives when a language begins to disappear.
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