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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827568303321

Titolo

Language diversity in the classroom : from intention to practice / / edited by Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva ; foreword by Suresh Canagarajah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-8093-8899-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

Studies in writing & rhetoric

Disciplina

808/.042/071173

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching - United States

English language - Variation - English-speaking countries

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

English language - Variation - Foreign countries

English language - Variation - United States

Language and culture - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Suresh Canagarajah -- Resolution from students' right to their own language and national language policy statement of CCCC -- Introduction / Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva -- The historical struggle for language rights in CCCC / Geneva Smitherman -- Race, class(es), gender, and age : the making of knowledge about language diversity / Elaine Richardson -- The expanding frontier of world Englishes : a new perspective for teachers of English / Victoria Cliett -- Language diversity in teacher education and in the classroom / Arnetha F. Ball and Rashidah Jaami Muhammad -- Practical pedagogy for composition / Kim Brian Lovejoy -- Resurfacing roots : developing a pedagogy of language awareness from two views / Gail Y. Okawa -- A bibliography / C. Jan Swearingen and Dave Pruett.

Sommario/riassunto

It's no secret that, in most American classrooms, students are expected to master standardized American English and the conventions of Edited



American English if they wish to succeed. Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice works to realign these conceptions through a series of provocative yet evenhanded essays that explore the ways we have enacted and continue to enact our beliefs in the integrity of the many languages and Englishes that arise both in the classroom and in professional communities.   Edited by Geneva Smitherman and Victor Villanueva, the collection was