Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms: Power, Prestige, and Prejudice by Michelle D. Devereaux Details
Standard tests require standard English, but high school students (grades 6-12) go to school and speak a variety of dialects and languages, creating a conflict between student language and school…
Standard tests require standard English, but high school students (grades 6-12) go to school and speak a variety of dialects and languages, creating a conflict between student language and school expectations. The purpose of this text is twofold: explain and explain how language classes work in classrooms and in student life, and to articulate learned language learning strategies.
Through classroom anecdotes and lesson plans and accessible narratives, the theory provides and clearly assesses the bridge to classroom practices that respect student language classes and use them as a force that secondary English teachers can build. The book explains how linguistic differences and ideologies are taught in the classroom; texts are typically used as models to explore how power, society and identity interact with language, literature, and student life; link common common state standards to the concepts presented; and provide strategies to teach the sense of English and other language variations, Students add standard English to their language tools..
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