Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy and Culture
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- provides an up-to-date review of sociolinguistic research and practice aimed at improving education for students who speak vernacular varieties of US English, English-based Creole languages, and non-English languages
- explores the impact of dialect differences and community languages on ethnolinguistically diverse students’ academic achievement
- challenges the dominant monolingual Standard language ideology
- presents sociolinguistically based approaches to language and literacy education that acknowledge and build on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school.
Throughout, the authors argue for the application of research-based knowledge to the dire situation (as measured by school failure and drop-out rates) of many ethnolinguistic populations in US schools. The overall aim of the volume is to heighten acknowledgement and recognition of the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the schools and to explore ways in which these resources can be used to extend the sociolinguistic repertoires, including academic English, of all students.
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Marcia Farr is Professor of Education and English at the Ohio State University and Professor Emerita of English and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Lisya Seloni is Assistant Professor of English in the Composition and TESOL graduate program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Juyoung Song is Assistant Professor in the department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University.
