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Title Ethnolinguistic diversity and education : language, literacy, and culture / edited by Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, and Juyoung Song
Published New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction : ethnolinguistic diversity in language and literacy education / Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, and Juyoung Song -- Ethnolinguistic diversity in the United States. Common myths and stereotypes regarding literacy and language diversity in the multilingual United States / Terrence G. Wiley and Gerda de Klerk ; Language, education, and literacy in a Mexican transnational community / Marcia Farr ; "I'm speaking English instead of my culture" : portraits of language use and change among Native American youth / Teresa L. McCarty [and others] ; Diverse literacy practices among Asian populations : implications for theory and pedagogy / Alan Hirvela -- Integrating ethnolinguistic diversity into schooling. Dialect awareness, cultural literacy, and the public interest / Walt Wolfram ; Ethnosensitivity in time and space : critical hip hop language pedagogies and Black language in the U.S. / H. Samy Alim and John Baugh ; Standardized assessment of African American children : a sociolinguistic perspective / Anne H. Charity Hudley ; Latino language practices and literacy education in the U.S. / Ofelia GarcĂ­a ; Language, literacy, and pedagogy of Carribean Creole English speakers / Shondel Nero ; From outside agitators to inside implementers : improving the literacy education of vernacular and Creole speakers / Angela E. Rickford and John R. Rickford
Summary Offers a 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, and presents soioculturally based approaches that acknowledge on the linguistic and cultural resources students bring into the school
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anthropological linguistics.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Multicultural education.
Language and education.
Language and culture.
anthropological linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Anthropological linguistics
Language and culture
Language and education
Language and languages -- Variation
Multicultural education
Form Electronic book
Author Farr, Marcia.
Seloni, Lisya.
Song, Juyoung.
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