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Morales, P. Zitlali; Hartman, Paul William – Theory Into Practice, 2019
We utilize positioning theory to analyze language use within two different language program models in elementary language arts classrooms. We explore how the positioning of minoritized languages as valuable facilitates the use of students' home languages in classrooms and allows us to examine the connections between language, identity, and power.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Black Dialects, Language Arts, Language Minorities
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Boutte, Gloria Swindler; Earick, Mary E.; Jackson, Tambra O. – Theory Into Practice, 2021
We explore the disconnect between education policy and culturally sustaining instruction, curriculum, discipline, and assessment for African American Language (AAL) Learners. Framing the omission of language policies as linguistic violence and anti-Black linguistic racism, we discuss antecedent and contemporary educational language policies and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African Americans, African American Culture, Racial Bias
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Baker-Bell, April – Theory Into Practice, 2020
In this article, the author historicizes the argument about Black Language in the classroom to contextualize the contemporary linguistic inequities that Black students experience in English Language Arts (ELA) classroom. Next, the author describes "anti-black linguistic racism" and interrogates the notion of academic language. Following…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, English Teachers, Academic Language