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Quentin C. Sedlacek; Maricela León; Ian Grey; Jordan McLarty; Shanae Neal; Shanea Neal – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: African American Language (AAL) refers to a rich, widely used, and extensively researched language variety. Despite its importance, AAL remains widely stigmatized in the United States due to anti-Black linguistic racism. Many colleges offer courses with AAL content, and these courses have the potential to help disrupt anti-Black…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language Teachers, Black Dialects, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Alston, Amber D.; Austin, Jasmine T. – Communication Teacher, 2023
The objective of this single-class activity is to get students to make connections between Eurocentric standards of communication and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) through a womanist rhetorical lens. This activity sheds light on how professional, academic, and corporate communicative spaces tend to deflect and reject Black people…
Descriptors: African Americans, Communication (Thought Transfer), Feminism, Learning Activities
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Hankerson, Shenika – Written Communication, 2023
Drawing on recent decades, literature in college writing that theorizes the importance of Critical Language Awareness (CLA) curricula for African American Language (AAL)-speaking students, this article offers empirical evidence on the design and implementation of a college writing curriculum centered on CLA and its influence on AAL-speaking…
Descriptors: Racism, Racial Discrimination, Black Dialects, African Americans
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Wynter-Hoyte, Kamania; Long, Susi; Frazier, Jennipher; Jackson, Jarvais – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Four teacher educators describe their work to establish Afrocentric foundations through integrating literacy and linguistic pluralism courses. We build on realities that teachers and children "do not learn, systematically and deeply, about Black genius and worth" (Baines, Tisdale, & Long, 2018, p. 20) in schools or universities nor…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, African American Culture, Multilingualism, Black Dialects
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Lee, Alice Y. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2022
This paper argues for a Black epistemological literacy education by centering Black equity in the process of teaching literacy methods. I offer a pedagogical model that stems from my own experiences disrupting required elementary literacy methods courses. My approach utilizes Black Language to illustrate the linguistic, sociocultural, and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Black Dialects
Jasmyn Kymberly Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black students and their linguistic resources are undervalued, disdained, disrespected, and disregarded in language arts classrooms. Not only is Black Language often ignored in English language arts instruction, but language more generally remains largely hidden within elementary ELA. Elementary ELA educators are tasked with teaching a vast array…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racism, Language Arts, Black Dialects