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Browning, M. Curt – 1991
The Program for Adult College Education (PACE) at the University of Missouri at Kansas City offers a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree. PACE faculty believe in writing as a learning tool. One course in the program is "Culture of the Working Class," which uses a variety of sources to examine how working people have lived from the turn of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Course Content, Course Organization, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHagemann, Julie – English Journal, 2001
Discusses how and why a pedagogy of overt comparison between students' home language (vernacular dialects of English) and school language (standard English) helps students learn the more global features of academic writing and the more sentenced-level features of Standard English. Outlines a pedagogy of overt comparison. Notes it motivates…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Writing, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism
