Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education write by Shondel J. Nero. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others. The number of such students is increasing as a result of the spread of English, internal and global migration, and increased educational access. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education offers: *a sociohistorical perspective on language spread and variation; *analysis of related issues such as language attitudes, identities, and prescribed versus actual language use; and *practical suggestions for pedagogy. Pedagogical features: Key points at the beginning of each chapter help focus the reader and provide a framework for reading, writing, reflection, and discussion; chapter-end questions for discussion and reflective writing engage and challenge the ideas presented and encourage a range of approaches in dealing with language diversity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume invite educators, researchers, and students, across the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English, literacy, and language education, to begin to consider and adopt context-specific policies and practices that will improve the language development and academic performance of linguistically diverse students.
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education write by Shondel J. Nero. This book was released on 2006. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings together a multiplicity of voices on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students - in North America and worldwide - who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, among others.
Creoles in Education
Creoles in Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creoles in Education write by Bettina Migge. This book was released on 2010. Creoles in Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a first survey of projects from around the world that seek to implement Creole languages in education. In contrast to previous works, this volume takes a holistic approach. Chapters discuss the sociolinguistic, educational and ideological context of projects, policy developments and project implementation, development and evaluation. It compares different kinds of educational activities focusing on Creoles and discusses a list of procedures that are necessary for successfully developing, evaluating and reforming educational activities that aim to integrate Creole languages in a viable and sustainable manner into formal education. The chapters are written by practitioners and academics involved in educational projects. They serve as a resource for practitioners, academics and persons wishing to devise or adapt educational initiatives. It is suitable for use in upper level undergraduate and post-graduate modules dealing with language and education with a focus on lesser used languages.
The Skin That We Speak
The Skin That We Speak - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Skin That We Speak write by Lisa Delpit. This book was released on 2013-04-09. The Skin That We Speak available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Lucid, accessible” research on classroom language bias for educators and “parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools” (Publishers Weekly). In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That We Speak moves beyond the highly charged war of idioms to present teachers and parents with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English spoken today. At a time when children who don’t speak formal English are written off in our schools, and when the class- and race-biased language used to describe those children determines their fate, The Skin That We Speak offers a cutting-edge look at this all-important aspect of education. Including groundbreaking work by Herbert Kohl, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, and Victoria Purcell-Gates, as well as classic texts by Geneva Smitherman and Asa Hilliard, this volume of writing is what Black Issues Book Review calls “an essential text.” “The book is aimed at helping educators learn to make use of cultural differences apparent in language to educate children, but its content guarantees broader appeal.” —Booklist “An honest, much-needed look at one of the most crucial issues in education today.” —Jackson Advocate
The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979)
The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979) write by Viv Edwards. This book was released on 2017-09-29. The West Indian Language Issue in British Schools (1979) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1979. The performance of West Indian children in British schools has been the subject of enquiries by both a parliamentary select committee and the Department of Education. It is widely believed that an important factor in the relative failure of West Indian children is the language they use, West Indian Creole, and while teachers and others who work with them are aware that their language is often very different from British English, they seldom understand the nature of the differences, or their implications. The aim of this book is to provide the non-specialist with an account of the language of West Indian children and to examine how linguistic ‘interference’ can affect their level of reading, writing and understanding, even when they have been born in Britain. It also considers the worrying possibility that negative attitudes towards them and their language may have an adverse effect on their motivation to learn standard English. Viv Edwards places great stress on the fact that, although Creole is different from British English, it is in no way deficient as a language. She emphasizes the importance of familiarity with the structure of Creole, since it is only in this way that the teachers can discriminate between real mistakes and Creole ‘interference’. Attention is drawn to the relationship between language attitudes and social stereotypes and the danger that these might be translated into reality. Different strategies available to the teacher are examined, drawing on American experience in this field, and various initiatives taken by British teachers are described, thus making the study a work of practical value to teachers and others.
