Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education

Shondel J. Nero

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781135621476
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others. The number of such students is increasing as a result of the spread of English, internal and global migration, and increased educational access. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education offers:
*a sociohistorical perspective on language spread and variation;
*analysis of related issues such as language attitudes, identities, and prescribed versus actual language use; and
*practical suggestions for pedagogy.

Pedagogical features: Key points at the beginning of each chapter help focus the reader and provide a framework for reading, writing, reflection, and discussion; chapter-end questions for discussion and reflective writing engage and challenge the ideas presented and encourage a range of approaches in dealing with language diversity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume invite educators, researchers, and students, across the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English, literacy, and language education, to begin to consider and adopt context-specific policies and practices that will improve the language development and academic performance of linguistically diverse students.

Subject Index

A

Academic achievement, see also Reading

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) speakers, 72–76, 83, 84–85, 88

bilingual education, 46–47

Caribbean English Creole (CEC) speakers, 112

Hawai’i Creole English (HCE) speakers, 154, 158–159

Latino English speakers, 176

standard English, 2, 10–13, 40, 47–49, 51, 53–56, 57–58

Tex Mex speakers, 189, 195–196

West African Pidgin English (WAPE) speakers, 209–210, 226–228

Academic assessment, see Language proficiency assessment

Academic English Mastery Program (California), 45, 50t, 84, 85

Academic placement, see also specific program

Caribbean English Creole (CEC) speakers, 109–111, 114

English language proliferation, 13

Latino English speakers, 171, 178

Tex Mex speakers, 186, 191–192

West African Pidgin English (WAPE) speakers, 206, 209, 210–212, 226–229

Accommodation programs

Caribbean English Creole (CEC) speakers, 107, 109

Hawai’i Creole English (HCE) speakers, 156

vernacular education programs, 44–46, 49, 50t, 53, 56–57, 58, 59

Accountability, 173–174

Acrolect

Creole Continuum, 121

Hawai’i Creole English (HCE), 142

Philippine English (PE), 263, 265–267, 280

Additive bilingualism, 153

Advanced Placement (AP), 178

Africa, 20, 21–23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31

African American English (AAE), see African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

African American Langua...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I: World Englishes, Creoles, and Education
• II: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)/Ebonics
• III: Caribbean Creole English
• IV: Hawai’i Creole English (HCE)/Pidgin
• V: Hispanized English
• VI: West African Pidgin English
• VII: Asian Englishes
• Conclusion
• List of Contributors
• Author Index
• Subject Index