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Direct linkSchaefer, Vance; Warhol, Tamara – TESOL Journal, 2020
The field of English as an additional language (EAL) advocates using authentic materials and meeting the needs of students. Yet often language in the EAL classroom appears to not reflect the linguistic variation (e.g., ethnic, regional, gender, sexual orientation, generational) of English typically encountered outside of the classroom. Therefore,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Variation, Grammar
White, John W.; Ali-Khan, Carolyne – American Secondary Education, 2013
Many minority students enter the university without the discursive ''codes of power" that they need both to find academic success and to self-identify as scholars. High schools and college preparatory programs too often ignore the role that academic language and literacy play in success at the college level. Even when academic…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Role, Minority Group Students, Academic Achievement
Papers on Language and Context. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory, No. 46.
Cook-Gumperz, Jenny; Gumperz, John J. – 1976
This issue includes four papers: (1) "Context in Children's Speech," by Jenny Cook-Gumperz and John J. Gumperz, demonstrates how context is used as a framing device for semantic interpretation of messages. It is suggested that context is not simply background information but part of the total message, entering into the information communicated,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
