Other people's English : code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy /
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"--Allowin...
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Anderson, South Carolina :
Parlor Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Y'Shanda Young-Rivera and Vershawn Ashanti Young
- Foreword / April Baker-Bell 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. Afterword / Victor Villanueva.