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Download full textWheeler, Rebecca S. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
This paper explores the long and winding road to integrating linguistic approaches to vernacular dialects in the classroom. After exploring past roadblocks, the author shares vignettes and classroom practices of her collaborator, Rachel Swords, who has succeeded in bringing Contrastive Analysis and Code-switching to her second and third-grade…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Urban Areas, English, African Americans
