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Direct linkBaker-Bell, April – Theory Into Practice, 2020
In this article, the author historicizes the argument about Black Language in the classroom to contextualize the contemporary linguistic inequities that Black students experience in English Language Arts (ELA) classroom. Next, the author describes "anti-black linguistic racism" and interrogates the notion of academic language. Following…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, English Teachers, Academic Language
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
Peer reviewedFilmer, Alice Ashton – World Englishes, 2003
Critically examines assumptions in teaching in a bi-dialectal context. Presents ethnographic data from one teacher's experience teaching a summer course in Shakespearean theater in which the students were speakers of African-American English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Ethnography, Language Variation
Peer reviewedFoster, Michele – Linguistics and Education, 1995
Examined the classroom discourse of an African American urban community college teacher as she interacted with her class of predominantly African American students. The teacher employed African American English forms and allowed them to coexist alongside standard English. (24 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, College Faculty
