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Baker-Bell, April – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2020
This essay asserts the importance for English/Language Arts educators to become conversant with the features of Black Language and the cultural and historical foundations of this speech genre as a rule-bound, grammatically consistent pattern of speech. These features go beyond grammar to include such conventions as a reliance on storytelling as a…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Black Dialects, Language Patterns, Grammar
South Carolina Literacy Resource Center, Columbia. – 1994
This curriculum framework for adult literacy was written by 21 South Carolina adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instructors, as submitted to the South Carolina Literacy Resource Center. It is based on current theories in the fields of adult education and second language acquisition and is designed to be flexible so that it may be adapted to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Guides, English Instruction

King, J. Freeman – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Words in English often have multiple meanings, causing concepts to be paired with incorrect signs when working with deaf students, such as the concept of "made up" meaning either "invented" or "decided." A method called "sentence chains" is recommended as a drill to learn to link concepts with their appropriate signs. (JDD)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Deaf Interpreting
Hochel, Sandra S. – 1983
The goal of instruction in mainstream dialect (MD) acquisition should be to expand students' oral communication skills to include skills needed for academic and economic success, thereby making alternate dialect speakers bidialectic. This implies recognizing students' home dialect as a valid linguistic system and a part of their identity. Although…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Code Switching (Language), English, English Instruction