We encourage students to find their own voices, again good from both a cognitive and linguistic point of view. But we do not use our own voices. We encourage students to work in collaborative groups. In these groups they are expected to find common ground. Other cultural, gender, and ethnic lines get drawn as well.
Pragmatic strategies create environments in which one can define and achieve success.
They find common ground. And on it goes. Just a cursory look at the reality of the classroom in light of linguistic, cognitive, and especially critical race threories shows us what many of our students must perceive. It gives us a glimpse of the chasm across which student and instructor often encounter one another.