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McClendon, Garrard Overton – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigates principals' individual and aggregate perceptions of and expectations for students who use African American Vernacular English. Using the African American English Teacher Attitude Scale (AAETAS), the study seeks to describe the relationship between principals' demographic characteristics and their perceptions of African…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Black Dialects, Socioeconomic Status, Negative Attitudes
Schaenen, Inda L. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2010
This teacher research inquiry is a critical discourse analysis of second grade classroom talk about racial identity and dialect difference within the theoretical framework of moral philosophy. Participants in the study, which took place in an urban public district in a Midwestern United States city, included ten African American students and a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, African American Students, Urban Schools, Classroom Communication
Smith, J. Elspeth S. – Writing Instructor, 2011
In this essay, the author discusses her journey from her first year of the PhD program at USC, and the work she is doing now for a company that builds infrastructure in Afghanistan. She explores the ways in which studies for her 1985 PhD in Rhetoric, Linguistics and Literature did and did not prepare her for the work she does now. Her memoir…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Females, Expectation
Wheeler, Rebecca S. – Educational Leadership, 2008
Many teachers lack the linguistic training required to build on the language skills that African American students from dialectally diverse backgrounds bring to school. When students correctly use the language patterns of their communities, such teachers may diagnose language deficits and attempt to teach them the "right" grammar. Research has…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, African American Students, Language Patterns, Language Variation
Kinloch, Valerie – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Although progress has been made since members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed the Students' Right to Their Own Language resolution (1974), there still remains a demand to examine youth perceptions of language. Such examinations can help teachers and researchers improve curricular choices, honor…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Student Attitudes, Position Papers, Student Rights
Schmidt, Patricia Ruggiano, Ed.; Lazar, Althier M., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This readable book features K-12 teachers and teacher educators who report their experiences of culturally responsive literacy teaching in primarily high poverty, culturally nondominant communities. These extraordinary teachers show us what culturally responsive literacy teaching looks like in their classrooms and how it advances children's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
Enyedy, Noel; Rubel, Laurie; Castellon, Viviana; Mukhopadhyay, Shiuli; Esmonde, Indigo; Secada, Walter – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2008
The concept of "revoicing" has recently received a substantial amount of attention within the mathematics education community. One of the primary purposes of revoicing is to promote a deeper conceptual understanding of mathematics by positioning students in relation to one another, thereby facilitating student debate and mathematical…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Multilingualism, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
de Villiers, Jill G.; Johnson, Valerie E. – Journal of Child Language, 2007
The production of third-person /s/ on English verbs seems to be ahead of comprehension. Mainstream American English (MAE) is contrasted with African American English (AAE), in which /s/ is rarely supplied. Two studies explored what information children get solely from /s/ on the end of a verb. Sixty-five MAE- and 65 AAE-speaking four- to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, North American English, Dialects
Hill, K. Dara – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
This study examines a Detroit suburb experiencing an unexpected influx of working class African American students. Dilemmas engendered a cultural mismatch between teachers and students. In a controversial climate where students cross the boundary line in search for educational parity, this study examines a seventh-grade English teacher who enacts…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), African American Students, Working Class, English Teachers
Rodgers, Kelly A. – Roeper Review, 2008
This article explores the interaction between racial and ethnic identity, racial centrality, and giftedness and then uses an expectancy-value motivation model as a framework for understanding how the interplay among racial identity, centrality, and giftedness contributes to the motivation of African American gifted students. The analysis begins by…
Descriptors: African American Students, Ethnicity, Race, Academically Gifted
Bloomquist, Jennifer – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
At one time, academic inquiries into the relationship between socioeconomic class and language acquisition were commonplace, but the past 20 years have seen a decrease in work that focuses on the intersection between class and early language learning. Recently, however, against the backdrop of the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Federal Legislation, Morphemes, Academic Achievement
Paris, Django – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
In this article, Paris explores the deep linguistic and cultural ways in which youth in a multiethnic urban high school employ linguistic features of African American Language (AAL) across ethnic lines. The author also discusses how knowledge about the use of AAL in multiethnic contexts might be applied to language and literacy education and how…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Urban Schools, Literacy Education, Linguistics
Baugh, John – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
In this article, the author shares his experience growing up speaking African American Vernacular English in school and his observations about nonstandard American plantation English. The author's amateur linguistic observations about nonstandard American plantation English gave rise to immediate dialect comparisons between African American…
Descriptors: African Americans, Standard Spoken Usage, Misconceptions, Equal Education
Godley, Amanda J.; Minnici, Angela – Urban Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine how classroom conversations about diverse dialects of English can provide a useful foundation for critical language and literacy instruction for students who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and other stigmatized dialects. This article describes a weeklong unit on language variety that…
Descriptors: Ideology, Language Variation, Literacy, Critical Theory
Watkins, Audrey P. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2008
This work addresses the politics of speech and language communication with respect to Africans in the Diaspora in Jamaica and in the United States of America. Language hegemony is an expression of the power and control sustained by means of institutions such as schools. Depending on their linguistic choices or situational language use, post…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African Culture, Linguistics, Foreign Countries