Other people's English : code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy / Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera, Kim Brian Lovejoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Vershawn Ashanti.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Code switching (Linguistics).

English language--Study and teaching--African American students.

English language.

African Americans--Education--Language arts.

African Americans.

African Americans--Languages.

Black English--Social aspects.

Black English.

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Education, Bilingual.

Language and education.

African Americans--Education.

Physical Description:

xv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press/Teachers College/Columbia University, [2014]

Summary:

This book presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach of teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the "code-switching" approach, four uniquely qualified authors make a case for "code-meshing"--Allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions. This practical resource translates theory into a concrete road map for pre- and in-service teachers who wish to use code-meshing in the classroom to extend students' abilities as writers and thinkers and to foster inclusiveness and creativity. This text provides activities and examples from middle and high schools as well as college and addresses the question of how to advocate for code-meshing with skeptical administrators, parents, and students. -- [From the back cover.].

Contents:

Introduction: Are you a part of the conversation?

Part 1: African American English and the promise of code-meshing / Rusty Barrett. Rewarding language : language ideology and prescriptive grammar ; You are what you speak : language variation, identity, and education ; Be yourself somewhere else : what's wrong with keeping undervalued English out of the classroom?

Part 2: Code-meshing or code-switching? / Vershawn Ashanti Young. Linguistic double consciousness ; The costs of code-switching ; Code-meshing : the new way to do English

Part 3: Code-meshing and responsible education in two middle school classrooms / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera. Code-meshing and responsible education ; Reimagining the classroom : code-meshing and the 21st-century student ; Making sense of it all : Code-meshing and educational reform

Part 4: Code-meshing and culturally relevant pedagogy for college writing instruction / Kim Brian Lovejoy. Code-meshing : teachers and students creating community ; Code-meshing through self-directed writing ; Composing code-meshing : thoughts on what to do and how to do it

Coda: The power of language.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index.

ISBN:

9780807755556

0807755559

9780807755037

0807755036

9780807755020

0807755028

OCLC:

858975363