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Gauging Pre-Service Teachers' Awareness of Dialectical Code Switching in Classroom Settings
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Thibodeaux, Tilisa; Curette, Drake; Bumstead, Stacey; Karlin, Andrea; Butaud, Gayle – Journal of Education, 2020
This study explored pre-service teachers' knowledge and awareness of dialectical code switching in classroom settings. A Likert-type scale survey and semi-structured interviews were conducted as part of an embedded, mixed-methods research design. Twenty-two undergraduate students responded to the online survey and 28 volunteered to be interviewed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Code Switching (Language), Teacher Student Relationship, Knowledge Level
There's Levels to This: Code-Meshing in a Community College Classroom
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Gallagher, Jamey – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2020
This article argues that writing teachers should allow, and even encourage, students to code-mesh in community college classrooms. By looking at and analyzing code-meshed writing produced by three students in an English 101 class, the author argues that code-meshing provides students with both a craft-wise approach to writing and a way to address…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Community Colleges, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
"More Like You": Disrupting Native Speakerism through a Multimodal Online Intercultural Exchange
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Schreiber, Brooke R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Research over the past decades has demonstrated the harmful effects of native speakerism in English language teaching, including how perceptions of native speaker status are deeply intertwined with race and national identity. Recently, scholars have begun to investigate how teacher training programs might push back on native speakerism by…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
An Assessment of Language Attitudes towards African American Vernacular English
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Miller, Nikole D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Speakers of stigmatized varieties are often judged as less educated and less competent than speakers of prestigious varieties. This can have profound effects on speakers' academic achievement and language assessment in schools. Linguists' efforts to destigmatize AAVE have included providing commentary in media outlets, publishing scholarly works,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African Americans, Language Attitudes, Attitude Change
Students' "Write" to Their Own Language: Teaching the African American Verbal Tradition as a Rhetorically Effective Writing Skill
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Williams, Bonnie J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
The 1974 Conference on College Composition and Communication's (CCCC) resolution declaring "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (SRTOL) defends the rights of students and all other writers to use different varieties of English (see Committee on CCCC Language Statement, 1974). In addition, the 1988 CCCC adoption of the National…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Language Variation
The Role of Instructors' Sociolinguistic Language Awareness in College Writing Courses: A Discourse Analytic/Ethnographic Approach
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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