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Les pratiques langagieres orales en situation scolaire des enfants de milieux populaires=The Oral Language Practices of Working Class Children in Classroom Settings.
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Lahire, Bernard – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1991
Analyzes the oral language patterns of students from working class backgrounds, revealing a preference for practical efficiency of communication over grammatical correctness or precision. By school standards, their spoken narrations are confused, incoherent, and incorrect, leading to cultural misunderstandings, mutual incomprehension, and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammatical Acceptability
Please Speak Up: Asian Immigrant Students in American College Classrooms.
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Hodne, Barbara D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
Offers reasons and suggestions for involving Asian immigrant college students in classroom talk (by initiating informal conversations, involving more students in discussions, and structuring small-group communication). Cautions against pressuring them to adopt American speech habits that may threaten their Asian-language identities. Includes…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Students