A Bridge from Home to School: Helping Working Class Students Acquire School Literacy.

Hagemann, Julie

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ERIC Number: EJ622808

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2001

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A Bridge from Home to School: Helping Working Class Students Acquire School Literacy.

Hagemann, Julie

English Journal, v90 n4 p74-81 Mar 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 students, helps them learn conventions of academic writing, and develop proofreading skills. (SR)

Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Writing, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism, English Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Nonstandard Dialects, Secondary Education, Standard Spoken Usage, Working Class, Writing Improvement

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: And Language for All.