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Reising, Bob – Clearing House, 1997
Suggests that the United States may well want to entertain a National Language Policy, a supplement to the National Education Goals and the national standards that have appeared in recent years. Notes that a position paper developed in 1988 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, entitled "National Language Policy," might serve…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Planning

Lee, Carol D.; Majors, Yolanda J. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
Compares linguistic and non-linguistic components of ways of speaking, being, performing, and reasoning within an urban African American secondary classroom and a midwestern African American hair salon, identifying culturally shared interactional norms that inform knowledge building across sites and analyzing how the discourse norms and structures…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Cosmetology, Cultural Differences

Taylor, Mark; Ouzts, Dan T. – Reading Improvement, 2002
Discusses the Gullah language, an English-based Creole language that contains words from approximately 21 African languages. Discusses historical background and educational implications. Concludes that in communicating with Gullah speaking children, a teacher has to be flexible, understanding, and willing to learn the student's native language.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)

Denning, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Quantitative evidence is presented for a change in vernacular Black English (VBE) that appears to involve increasing similarities between VBE and other varieties. It is suggested that, although Black varieties and White varieties of English remain distinct and undergo certain changes separately, this need not be regarded as absolute divergence.…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, English

Harris, Ovetta; And Others – Linguistics and Education, 1995
This bibliography contains 103 references to scholarship on Africanized English and related educational scholarship published since 1985 and includes articles published in scholarly journals, books, and chapters from edited volumes. (MDM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Books, Educational Policy, English

Gilyard, Keith – College Composition and Communication, 1999
Intends to trace a line of thought from early rhetoricians and scholars to contemporary researchers, thinkers, and practitioners that both emphasizes critical pedagogy and values Black culture, especially its vernacular language. Concludes that there was always an African-American contribution to the field of composition in some way or another.…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Literature, Higher Education

Massey, Douglas S.; Lundy, Garvey – Urban Affairs Review, 2001
Compared male and female speakers of white middle class English, black accented English, and black English vernacular in their telephone contacts with rental agents who were advertising apartments for rent in Philadelphia. Results found clear, dramatic evidence of telephone-based racial discrimination. Callers perceived as lower class black…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Racial Discrimination, Real Estate Occupations, Social Class

van der Walt, Johann L.; van Rooy, Bertus – World Englishes, 2002
Investigates the perception and application of the norm in South African English with specific reference to Black South African English. Hypothesizes that South African English is in the hibernation and expansion phase. Three sets of data are presented and analyzed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes

van Rooy, Bertus – World Englishes, 2002
Investigates stress placement in one variety of Black South African English (BSAE), namely Tswana English. A corpus of 333 polysyllabic words was analyzed in detail to determine the properties of the Tswana English stress system; properties were interpreted by means of optimality theory. Concludes that stress is stored lexically in function words,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Variation

Marback, Richard – College Composition and Communication, 2001
Argues that the responses to the Oakland, California ebonics resolution miss what made the resolution so significant while also making debate about it so intractable. Proposes that compositionists who acknowledge attitudes that made the resolution so significant can productively engage the larger public regarding literacy education in a racially…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Democratic Values, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Hamilton, Kendra – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
This document shares Dr. Walt Wolfram's views on African-American Dialect. He states that the most elementary principle is that all language is patterned and rule-governed, and one can apply that principle to African-American English, Appalachian English, and to every other dialect that is examined.
Descriptors: African Americans, North American English, Black Dialects, Sociolinguistics
Miller, Keith D. – College Composition and Communication, 2004
Using Burkean theory, I claim that Malcolm X brilliantly exposed the rhetoric and epistemology of whiteness as he rejected the African American jeremiad--a dominant form of African American oratory for more than 150 years. Whiteness theory served as the basis for Malcolm X's alternative literacy, which raises important questions that literacy…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Whites, African Americans, Nontraditional Education
Edgerson, David – Online Submission, 2006
America is a true melting pot, as exemplified by the diversity of students in our classrooms. Many are concerned with how teachers are providing instruction for the diverse groups of students they teach. Failure to embrace multiculturalism allows members of society to continue to promote disenfranchisement. For example, proponents of the complex,…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, North American English, Black Dialects, Student Diversity
Brown, David West – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
Language instruction in secondary education is dominated by standard language ideology--a view of language that sanctions one ("standard") variety at the expense of other ("nonstandard") ones. While it is clear that students need access to privileged rhetorical forms, it is similarly clear that most current pedagogies do not facilitate such access…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Secondary Education, Ideology
McKay, Sandra Lee – 1991
Prator (1968) argued strongly for promoting a single standard of English, maintaining that schools have an obligation to teach a native standard of English. The assumption that the educational structure is a productive forum for directing language use is questioned. The report begins with a discussion of the controversy surrounding United States…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Language Standardization, Role of Education