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Direct linkQuentin 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
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
Kathryn Curtis – ProQuest LLC, 2025
Students bring cultural and linguistic richness to the English Language Arts classroom in the form of English language diversity; that being said, English Language Arts (ELA) education has traditionally privileged Standard American English (*SAE) and its related white culture rather than embrace the aforementioned diversity. With calls for more…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Language Arts, English Teachers, Black Dialects
Brittany L. Frieson – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Critical scholarship has collectively challenged multilingual spaces as operating under a Latinx/Anglo dualism that excludes the knowledge, voices, and experiences of young Black children. Therefore, we must reimagine multilingual spaces that are not only inclusive of Black languages and literacies; but also see them as vital resources that…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Teacher Attitudes
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
Zachary Maher; Carolyn Mazzei; Ebony Terrell Shockley; Tatiana Thonesavanh; Jan Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
