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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
Thirty Years of Influence: A Look Back at Geneva Smitherman's "Talkin and Testifyin"
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DoBell, Daniel C. – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
Thirty years after its publication, Geneva Smitherman's seminal work, "Talkin and Testifyin" continues to influence scholars, policymakers and practitioners. This article takes a look at Smitherman's work by first providing an overview of the sociolinguistic theoretical foundations that led to its publication. This is followed by a reception…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Black Dialects, Recognition (Achievement), Academic Discourse
True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy
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Gilyard, Keith – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
In "True to the Language Game", Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard's most relevant scholarly contributions to deliberations about linguistic diversity,…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Writing (Composition), Popular Culture, Applied Linguistics