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Direct linkDunstan, Stephany Brett; Jaeger, Audrey J. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The dialects that college students speak represent a type of diversity that can influence many elements of their experiences in college, including academic experiences. In this study, we examined the influence of speaking a stigmatized dialect on academic experiences for White and African American students (both male and female) from rural…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Language Variation, Educational Experience
Williams, Kathleen Clagett – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Grounded in literature on the miseducation of students whose native varieties of English differ most noticeably from the standard academic variety (Delpit 2006; Labov 1972a; Rickford 1999; Smitherman 1999; Wolfram, Adger, and Christian 1999; Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 2006), this dissertation examines the links between the sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Ethnography, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Although progress has been made since members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed the Students' Right to Their Own Language resolution (1974), there still remains a demand to examine youth perceptions of language. Such examinations can help teachers and researchers improve curricular choices, honor…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Student Attitudes, Position Papers, Student Rights
Cargile, Aaron Castelan; Takai, Jiro; Rodriguez, Jose I. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to examine attitudes towards African-American vernacular English (AAVE) in a setting outside of the USA. Because foreign attitudes toward AAVE can serve as an indirect assessment of a society's racial prejudice, we decided to explore these attitudes in Japan: a country with an intriguing mix of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Foreign Countries, African Americans, Black Dialects
Download full textRose, Jeanne Marie – Composition Forum, 2005
In this essay, the author suggests that recent developments in English studies and popular culture create an opportune moment for writing teachers to welcome such literature in composition curricula. The author describes how studying stories by John Edgar Wideman enabled first-year composition students to engage political and interpersonal issues…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Literature, English
