ISBN:
0415802784
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0415802792
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0203863445
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9780415802789
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9780415802796
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9780203863442
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 272 p)
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ill., map
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education : Language, Literacy and Culture
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Language and education
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Language and languages Variation
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Language and culture
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Multicultural education
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Anthropological linguistics
Abstract:
Offers a review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of US English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages, and presents soioculturally based approaches that acknowledge on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Language and Literacy Education; Part I Ethnolinguistic Diversity in the United States; 2 Common Myths and Stereotypes Regarding Literacy and Language Diversity in the Multilingual United States; 3 Language, Education, and Literacy in a Mexican Transnational Community; 4 "I'm Speaking English Instead of My Culture": Portraits of Language Use and Change among Native American Youth; 5 Diverse Literacy Practices among Asian Populations: Implications for Theory and Pedagogy
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Integrating Ethnolinguistic Diversity into Schooling6 Dialect Awareness, Cultural Literacy, and the Public Interest; 7 Ethnosensitivity in Time and Space: Critical Hip Hop Language Pedagogies and Black Language in the U.S.; 8 Standardized Assessment of African American Children: A Sociolinguistic Perspective; 9 Latino Language Practices and Literacy Education in the U.S.; 10 Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy of Caribbean Creole English Speakers; 11 From Outside Agitators to Inside Implementers: Improving the Literacy Education of Vernacular and Creole Speakers; Afterword; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
