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Apprenticeship of Pre-Service Teachers through Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics
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Mizell, Jason D. – Language and Education, 2020
This article examines a graduate language education course that was taught as part of an afterschool 'club' activity located in a majority-minority middle school (Latiné and Black) in the US southeast. Pre-service teachers were apprenticed as researchers and educators in developing a culturally sustaining pedagogy for multilingual and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Middle School Students, Culturally Relevant Education
Using the "Improper" Language in the Classroom: The Conflict between Language Use and Legitimate Varieties in Education. Evidence from a Greek Cypriot Classroom
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Ioannidou, Elena – Language and Education, 2009
This paper examines the tensions created in a Greek Cypriot primary classroom between the legitimate variety of the school, Standard Modern Greek, and the home variety of the students, the Greek Cypriot Dialect. Ethnographic data are presented to indicate that language use in the classroom, contrary to what language policy-makers argue, is…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Dialects, Language Usage, Ethnography
Globalisation and Diversification: Two Opposing Influences on Local Literacies.
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Barton, David – Language and Education, 1994
Discusses globalization and diversification within four language issues for adult literacy: (1) the spread of a small number of world languages, (2) development of the varieties of language, (3) choice of language for education and official life, and (4) disappearing languages. (JP)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Creoles, Dialects, Foreign Countries