What's a (White) Teacher To Do about Black English?.

Jonsberg, Sara Dalmas

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ERIC Number: EJ622804

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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What's a (White) Teacher To Do about Black English?

Jonsberg, Sara Dalmas

English Journal, v90 n4 p51-53 Mar 2001

Argues that it is important for Black students and for all students to understand that Black English is indeed a language with rules, beauty, and power so that they come to respect it, respect its history, and respect their own bilingualism. (SR)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Bidialectalism, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Attitudes, Multicultural Education, Standard Spoken Usage, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: And Language for All.