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Westbrooks, Lisa Marie – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share my personal memories and emotions of my experience as an African American, a Woman of Color, teacher-peer, teacher-researcher, student and a colonized standard American English speaker, situated in English classrooms as white teachers teach African American literature from a white gaze. I concur with…
Descriptors: White Teachers, African American Literature, English Instruction, Multicultural Education
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Gallagher, Jamey – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2020
This article argues that writing teachers should allow, and even encourage, students to code-mesh in community college classrooms. By looking at and analyzing code-meshed writing produced by three students in an English 101 class, the author argues that code-meshing provides students with both a craft-wise approach to writing and a way to address…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Community Colleges, Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers
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Fowler-Amato, Michelle; Warrington, Amber – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
In this article, we explore data from two studies that demonstrate how inviting teachers to take on the role of codesigners of interventions in social design experiments created opportunities for them to consider their own positionality and privilege as well as negotiate deficit and antideficit discourses underlying and shaping English-language…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Literacy Education, Curriculum Design, English
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Bearder, Peter – English in Education, 2015
This article will discuss my often challenging transition from radical political poet to full time poet teacher in a Roman Catholic secondary school. Can the counter-cultural art form of spoken word education thrive within the institution of school? By looking at classroom and after school experience, student poems and relevant theory, the paper…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Disadvantaged, Poets, Catholic Schools
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Clark, Urszula – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
The ways in which literacy in English is taught in school generally subscribe to and perpetuate the notion of a homogenous, unvaried set of writing conventions associated with the language they represent, especially in relation to spelling and punctuation as well as grammar. Such teaching also perpetuates the myth that there is one…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy Education, Spelling
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Williams, Lucy J. – English in Australia, 2011
There are increasing numbers of students entering Australian secondary schools whose first language is not English. Compound this with the numbers of Indigenous students who speak Creoles or who have distinct dialects, and teachers in secondary English classrooms are facing a struggle to implement the syllabus and engage students. The issue of how…
Descriptors: Dialects, Creoles, Foreign Countries, English Teachers
Byfield, Lavern Georgia McLeary – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Few studies on English language learners (ELLs) focus on teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism and describe the impact of those perceptions on language arts pedagogy. While numerous studies have explored the teaching of diverse students and the negative effects of standardized tests on the quality instruction these students…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Souto-Manning, Mariana – English Education, 2010
Souto-Manning examines the role of classroom discourse analysis in helping to change a teacher's perceptions of English Language Learners from students who need "fixing" to experts from whom teachers may learn. She finds that blurring the lines between teacher/student and subject/object positions opens up pedagogical third spaces that are often…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English Instruction
Crystal, David – Engl Lang Teaching, 1970
Defining stylistics as the study of all the varieties which constitute a language, the author discusses some of the concepts relative to stylistic analysis and describes the dimensions of style which the teacher must bear in mind when approaching the study of English. To be continued in a later issue. (FWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, English Instruction, Language Styles, Language Usage
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Wooten, Richard H. – NASSP Bulletin, 1975
The way out of lower socioeconomic niches is the language bridge, says this principal. He urges compensatory training for all those not speaking standard English. (Editor)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, English Instruction, Language Instruction
Griffin, Dorothy M. – Engl J, 1970
Explains the need for a well structured unit on dialectology in high school English classes; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers on English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (SW)
Descriptors: Democracy, Dialect Studies, English Instruction, Language Instruction
Kaplan, Robert B. – Engl Quart, 1970
An address given before the British Columbia Association of Teaching English as an Alternate Language (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 3, 1969). (RD)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Language Instruction
Sepulveda, Betty R. – Elementary English, 1973
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, English Instruction
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Goodman, Kenneth S. – English Record, 1971
The goal of instruction in standard spoken usage should not be to modify the student's language behavior by rejecting his nonstandard dialect, but to work with him to expand his competencies on the base of his present linguistic competence. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Language Handicaps
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Hoffman, Melvin J. – English Record, 1971
An exposition and refutation of two writers taken as representative of those accusing linguists who support the teaching of Standard English as a second language of covert racism. (JM)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, English (Second Language), English Instruction
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