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Simmons, Amelia – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2014
It is the purpose of this paper to describe how the identification of linguistic differences in Black English helped eradicate the language barrier in a rural Georgia classroom and enhanced the communication between the teacher and the students.
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African Americans, Language Usage, Rural Schools
Gholnecsar E. Muhammad; Marcelle Haddix – English Education, 2016
In light of the current assaults on Black girls and misaligned instructional practices in and outside of schools across the nation, English educators need to understand a more complete vision of the identities girls create for themselves, and the literacies and practices needed to best teach them. This article provides a review of literature of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Literacy, Females, Self Concept
Ira Allen, Editor; Elizabeth A. Flynn, Editor – College Composition and Communication, 2016
This symposium, "Barack Obama's Significance for Rhetoric and Composition," aims to provoke and renew disciplinary conversations about the meaning of an age now nearly past, as well as to pose questions that resonate for presidential rhetoric generally. It includes: (1) "Obama's Rhetoric: Black Talk Flow, White Folk Fluent"…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetoric, Political Candidates, Elections
Grey, ThedaMarie Gibbs; Williams-Farrier, Bonnie J. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
Through this piece, we draw upon critical race theory and Collins's Afrocentric feminist epistemology to highlight the importance of storytelling as a knowledge validation system in Black women's language. We illuminate and analyze a dialogic performance of two Black female literacy scholars in a coffee house "sipping tea," sharing…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, African American Teachers, Literacy
Guerrettaz, Anne Marie; Zahler, Tara – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
As racial tensions and reports of violence have become prominent in news and social media, U.S. society has been responding, struggling, and changing. This complex political and social situation can be particularly confusing for international students studying at U.S. universities. English language teachers are especially well positioned to create…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Foreign Students, College Students, Language Teachers
Daily, Danny L., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
African Americans students, who use African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the academic setting, receive negative misconceptions by English educators. Negative teacher attitudes might cause African American students to lack commitment to learning. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine whether English teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Black Dialects, Teacher Characteristics, Age Differences
Martinez, Danny C. – Urban Education, 2017
This article addresses teachers' uptake of Black and Latina/o youth linguistic repertoires within the official space of an English Language Arts (ELA) classroom and how youth respond to corrective feedback that is focused on the form of their messages, rather than their function. Corrective feedback offered by one Latina teacher indexed larger…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Language Arts, Feedback (Response)
Johnson, Lakeisha; Terry, Nicole Patton; Connor, Carol McDonald; Thomas-Tate, Shurita – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The achievement gaps between poor and more affluent students are persistent and chronic, as many students living in poverty are also members of more isolated communities where dialects such as African American English and Southern Vernacular English are often spoken. Non-mainstream dialect use is associated with weaker literacy achievement. The…
Descriptors: Dialects, Dialect Studies, Nonstandard Dialects, Black Dialects
Edwards, Jan; Gross, Megan; Chen, Jianshen; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Kaplan, David; Brown, Megan; Seidenberg, Mark S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the relationships among minority dialect use, language ability, and young African American English (AAE)-speaking children's understanding and awareness of Mainstream American English (MAE). Method: Eighty-three 4- to 8-year-old AAE-speaking children participated in 2 experimental tasks. One task…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, North American English, Comprehension
Mitri, Souraya Mansour; Terry, Nicole Patton – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine African American children's performance on a phonological awareness task that included items reflecting differences between African American English (AAE) and mainstream American English. The relationship between spoken production of AAE forms and performance on phonological awareness, vocabulary, and…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, African American Students, Reading Skills, Black Dialects
Lindsay Meyer Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the years, less attention is given to students' spelling skills compared to other areas of literacy achievement like word reading and passage comprehension in relationship to nonmainstream dialect usage. Considering that English spelling is based on the phonological and morphological structures of Mainstream American English (MAE), it is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Grade 1
Dover, Alison G.; Henning, Nick; Agarwal-Rangnath, Ruchi; Dotson, Erica K. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2018
As social justice-oriented teachers and teacher educators, it can seem as if we are fighting a losing battle against neoliberal education policies designed to disrupt and dismantle our field. In this article we draw upon traditions of critical race theory, counterstorying, and critical hope to examine the complex realities of contemporary teacher…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Faculty Development, Teacher Educators, Neoliberalism
Gatlin, Brandy; Wanzek, Jeanne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The current meta-analysis examines recent empirical research studies that have investigated relations among dialect use and the development and achievement of reading, spelling, and writing skills. Method: Studies published between 1998 and 2014 were selected if they: (a) included participants who were in Grades K-6 and were typically…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Dialects, Elementary School Students, Correlation
Hill, Dara – Voices from the Middle, 2013
This article informs us about the need for facilitating code-switching pedagogies that call for teacher-led scaffolding of students' home languages to negotiate informal and formal contexts for writing and speaking. Varied strategies are guided by three mentor texts the author has conceptualized or enacted in practice and research among middle…
Descriptors: Mentors, Code Switching (Language), Instruction, Middle School Students
Ware, Tessa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Starting with the writer's own experience as a reader, this article discusses poetry by Eric Roach, Derek Walcott, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Edward Baugh, Michael Smith and Velma Pollard. It explores the sense of place felt by writer and reader, going on to analyse the poets' use of Nation Language, poetic metre and intertextuality in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Oral Tradition