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Direct linkWare, Tessa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Starting with the writer's own experience as a reader, this article discusses poetry by Eric Roach, Derek Walcott, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Edward Baugh, Michael Smith and Velma Pollard. It explores the sense of place felt by writer and reader, going on to analyse the poets' use of Nation Language, poetic metre and intertextuality in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Oral Tradition
Download full textHill, K. Dara – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2008
Grounded in integrated and excerpt style (Emerson, et al., 1995), this article chronicles Mr. Lehrer, an English teacher who provides his students access to standard and nonstandard writing conventions. Student writing samples and discursive practices illustrate enhanced awareness of distinctions between nonstandard language (African American…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Suburban Schools, Working Class, Black Dialects
