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McMurtry, Teaira – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
Historically, language instruction involving Black Language (BL) assumes a goal of eradication, particularly in school-sanctioned literacy practices. Language arts education for Black students must be liberatory, that is, antiracist and artful. The opportunities for English Language Arts (ELA) teachers to create, augment, and change the course of…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 11, Code Switching (Language), Black Dialects
Wright, Brian L. – Urban Education, 2021
This study explores a psychosocial concept coined by the author referred to as "Urban Critical Literacy" (UCL). UCL is an emergent four-step strategy employed by five African American young men as they navigated their cultural worlds of home and school in an urban setting. Critical literacy is the theoretical conceptual framework that…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Urban Areas, Critical Literacy
Vetter, Amy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how a White teacher (Gina) responded to African American Language (AAL) in ways that situated students as valuable members of a high school English classroom. This 5-month qualitative study in a 10th grade classroom drew from positioning theory and discourse analysis to make sense of classroom interactions…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Whites, Physical Characteristics
Baker-Bell, April – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
This article responds to two long-standing dilemmas that limit the effectiveness of language education for students who speak and write in African American Language (AAL): (1) the gap between theory and research on AAL and classroom practice, and (2) the need for critical language pedagogies. This article presents the effectiveness of a critical…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Language Arts
Chisholm, James S.; Godley, Amanda J. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
The field of literacy studies has seen decades of calls for scholarship and instruction that address issues of dialect diversity, identity, and power but few empirical studies that document students' engagement in classroom activities designed to address these issues. The goal of this article is to describe how three bidialectal African American…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, African American Students, Sociolinguistics