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Cahnmann, Melisa – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
This paper seeks to understand the role of culturally-specific styles of discourse in the classroom. The paper uses and expands upon three categories of classroom language use (control, curriculum, and critique) to present data on how a Puerto Rican American teacher uses repetition and discourse styles that have African and African American…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques