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Ramona T. Pittman; Rebekah E. Piper; Whitney McCoy; Melody Alanis – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine the most prevalent African American Language (AAL) phonological and grammatical features in slavery- and Civil Rights-themed children's literature. Seventy-six books were initially selected to determine if they used AAL in dialogue or in narration. Of the 76 books, only 39 included AAL. The 39 books were…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, African Americans, Black Dialects, Language Usage
Renata Love Jones; C. Patrick Proctor – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this article Renata Love Jones and Patrick Proctor introduce the notion of pursuing language to engage in critical dialogue about the nature and focus of language and literacy education in multilingual and multicultural contexts. A persistent threat in language and literacy education is standardization that constrains how language and literacy…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism