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Download full textCahnmann, Melisa – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
This paper seeks to understand the role of culturally-specific styles of discourse in the classroom. The paper uses and expands upon three categories of classroom language use (control, curriculum, and critique) to present data on how a Puerto Rican American teacher uses repetition and discourse styles that have African and African American…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Rodriguez-Brown, Flora V.; Elias-Olivares, Lucia – 1981
This paper examines: (1) the use of questions by children at different levels of proficiency in Spanish and English, and (2) the congruency between the language constructs used to measure language proficiency and the natural language repertoire of children as seen in video-tapes of classroom interaction. A quantitative analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages)
