Ebonics
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Ebonics

The Urban Education Debate

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ebonics

The Urban Education Debate

About this book

Controversy erupted in 1996 when the Oakland Unified School District's 'Ebonics Resolution' proposed an approach to teaching Standard English that recognized the variety of English spoken by African American students. With new demands for accountability driven by the No Child Left Behind policy and its emphasis on high-stakes testing in Standard English, this debate will no doubt rise again. This book seeks to better inform this next episode.

In Part 1, leading scholars place the debate within its historical and contemporary context, provide clear explanations of what Ebonics is and is not, and offer practical approaches schools can and should follow to address the linguistic needs of African American students. Part 2 provides original documents that accompanied the debate, including the original resolutions, legislation, organization position papers, and commentary/analyses from leading linguists. This book is written for all those whose work impacts the lives of Ebonics speakers in our public schools.

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Yes, you can access Ebonics by David J Ramirez,Terrence Wiley,Gerda de Klerk,Enid Lee,Wayne E. Wright in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Teaching Language Arts. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part 1 Ebonics in the Urban Education Debate
  5. Ebonics: Background to the Policy Debate
  6. Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard1
  7. Educational Implications of Ebonics
  8. Black Language and the Education of Black Children: One Mo Once
  9. Ebonics and Education in the Context of Culture: Meeting the Language and Cultural Needs of English Learning African American Students
  10. Language Varieties in the School Curriculum: Where Do They Belong and How Will They Get There?
  11. Part 2 Background To The Ebonics Debate
  12. Introduction
  13. Oakland Uni.ed School District’s Resolution
  14. ORIGINAL OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT RESOLUTION ON EBONICS
  15. Examples of Legislative Reaction
  16. CONGRESSIONAL RESPONSE
  17. Legal Background
  18. MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN ET AL. V. ANN ARBOR SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD
  19. Linguists’ Reactions
  20. A Linguist Looks At the Ebonics Debate
  21. Ebonics and Linguistic Science: Clarifying the Issues
  22. Dialect Readers Revisited
  23. CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
  24. Organizational Responses
  25. POLICY STATEMENT OF THE TESOL BOARD ON AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH
  26. POLICY STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (AAAL) ON THE APPLICATION OF DIALECT KNOWLEDGE TO EDUCATION
  27. CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (CAL) STATEMENT TO THE MEDIA ON EBONICS
  28. CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION (CABE) POSITION STATEMENT ON EBONICS
  29. Recommended Readings on Ebonics
  30. Scholarly References and News Titles