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Peer reviewedSmitherman, Geneva Napoleon; Murray, Denise – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Two articles examine Ebonics and its relation to the teaching of English as a Second Language. The first suggests that teachers of English, literacy instructors, and educational policy makers need to take language differences into account. The second suggests that the issues around Ebonics are the issues vital to all language educators--language,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English (Second Language), Language Variation, Metalinguistics
