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A Bridge from Home to School: Helping Working Class Students Acquire School Literacy.
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Hagemann, Julie – English Journal, 2001
Discusses how and why a pedagogy of overt comparison between students' home language (vernacular dialects of English) and school language (standard English) helps students learn the more global features of academic writing and the more sentenced-level features of Standard English. Outlines a pedagogy of overt comparison. Notes it motivates…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Writing, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism