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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
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Brian Mooney; Joniesha Hickson; Aaleah Oliver; Jahvel Pierce; April Baker-Bell – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2023
In this article, co-authors Brian Mooney, Joniesha Hickson, Aaleah Oliver, and Jahvel Pierce discuss language, race, and education with author April Baker-Bell. Speaking from their perspectives as teachers, scholars, researchers, poets, spiritual leaders, and cultural workers, their experiences address the importance of sustaining a Black…
Descriptors: African American Culture, African Americans, Black Dialects, Music
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Dan Reynolds; Brianna Rae Kemper; Kristin Collette – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
While adolescent foundational skills interventions can be critical levers for reading improvement, district leaders, teachers, and researchers must make complex decisions about how to evaluate their effectiveness in context. In this discussion article, we explore three issues and tensions we experienced during a 2-year research-practice…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Urban Areas, School Districts
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Westbrooks, Lisa Marie – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share my personal memories and emotions of my experience as an African American, a Woman of Color, teacher-peer, teacher-researcher, student and a colonized standard American English speaker, situated in English classrooms as white teachers teach African American literature from a white gaze. I concur with…
Descriptors: White Teachers, African American Literature, English Instruction, Multicultural Education
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Metz, Mike – Urban Education, 2021
Approaches to teaching critical language awareness are gaining traction in urban schools with culturally and linguistically complex student populations; however, what teachers need to know to enact these pedagogies is not well understood. Using a lens of pedagogical content knowledge for critical language teaching, this study examines what happens…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Critical Theory, Language Attitudes
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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
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Hallett, Jill – Language and Education, 2020
This study investigates the learning of linguistic structures associated with African American English (AAE) among four non-AAE-speaking teachers of AAE-speaking students. It considers implicit and explicit learning/development of a second dialect in two novel ways. First, it focuses on the understanding of a socially-stigmatized dialect by…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Teacher Attitudes
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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
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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)
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Kersting, Jessica M.; Anderson, Michele A.; Newkirk-Turner, Brandi L.; Nelson, Nickola W. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
African American English has a rich oral tradition, with identifiable features across all 5 systems of language--phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. This is an investigation of the extent to which pragmatic features of African American oral storytelling traditions are apparent in the written stories of African American…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Oral Language, Story Telling
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Patricia A. Young – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2014
Produced in 1977, "Bridge: A Cross Culture Reading Program" could have transformed what we presently know as urban education. However, "Bridge" met with the disapproval of parents, communities, and school districts. The execution of a truly transformative curriculum died as an experimental project implemented in urban school…
Descriptors: African American Students, Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Junior High School Students
Barnett, Todd L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is a growing interest in the quandary of literacy and proficiency amongst K-12 students in the United States. Similarly, because of uncharted research about biliteracy amongst African-American students in urban schools and benefits of Spanish fluency, communicative gaps are increased and fluency is breached. If advantages are properly…
Descriptors: African American Students, Literacy, Bilingualism, Spanish
Collier, Virginia P.; Thomas, Wayne P. – International Literacy Association, 2019
Educators in the United States have worked for decades to create school environments where exciting learning takes place, with students deeply engaged as they expand their ways to explore new knowledge. Although some schools provide cutting-edge opportunities for middle-class students, the challenges continue for underserved students who start…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Native Speakers
Kohn, Mary Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Most sociolinguistic studies rely on apparent time, cross-sectional methods to analyze language change. On the basis of apparent time data, sociolinguists have hypothesized that cultural processes of lifespan change create predictable cycles of linguistic behavior in which adolescents lead in the use of vernacular variants and advance sound change…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Sociolinguistics, Black Dialects, Longitudinal Studies
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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
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