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Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching about African American Language in College Classrooms
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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
African American Language in Science Education: A Translanguaging Perspective
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Quentin C. Sedlacek; Catherine Lemmi; Kimberly Feldman; Nickolaus Ortiz; Maricela Leon – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Ideologies of language and race are deeply connected in the United States. Language practices associated with racially marginalized communities, such as African American Language (AAL) or Spanglish, are often heavily stigmatized. Such stigma is not grounded in empirical research on language, but rather in "raciolinguistic ideologies"…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Bias, Racism, Teacher Attitudes
Hip Hop Language Pedagogies for Liberation: A Critical Cultural Cypher on Language, Race, and Education
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Brian Mooney; Joniesha Hickson; Aaleah Oliver; Jahvel Pierce; April Baker-Bell – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2023
In this article, co-authors Brian Mooney, Joniesha Hickson, Aaleah Oliver, and Jahvel Pierce discuss language, race, and education with author April Baker-Bell. Speaking from their perspectives as teachers, scholars, researchers, poets, spiritual leaders, and cultural workers, their experiences address the importance of sustaining a Black…
Descriptors: African American Culture, African Americans, Black Dialects, Music
'It's Just How We Articulate the Blackness in Us': African American Teachers, Black Students, and African American Language
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Danielle Marie Greene – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
This study investigates the role of African American Language (AAL) and *Standardized American English (*SAE) in Black/African American same-race teacher-student relationships. The teachers in this study (1) used AAL as a valuable tool for building rapport and trust with their students; (2) were aware of their positions as linguistic role models;…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, English, African American Culture
"The World Has to Stop Discriminating against African American Language" (AAL): Exploring the Language Ideologies of AAL-Speaking Students in College Writing
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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
Liberatory Praxis in Preservice Teacher Education: Claiming Afrocentricity as Foundational in Critical Language and Literacy Teaching
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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