Students' "Write" to Their Own Language: Teaching the African American Verbal Tradition as a Rhetorically Effective Writing Skill

Autor/in	Williams, Bonnie J.
Titel	Students' "Write" to Their Own Language: Teaching the African American Verbal Tradition as a Rhetorically Effective Writing Skill
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 46 (2013) 3, S.411-429 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
DOI	10.1080/10665684.2013.808099
Schlagwörter	Black Dialects; Teaching Methods; Language Usage; Language Variation; Language Planning; Public Policy; English Only Movement; Social Justice; Writing Instruction; Culturally Relevant Education; African American Students; Case Studies; Metalinguistics; Writing Skills; Skill Development; Student Attitudes; Writing Strategies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachwechsel; Öffentliche Ordnung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Schreibunterricht; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Schülerverhalten; Schreibtechnik
Abstract	The 1974 Conference on College Composition and Communication's (CCCC) resolution declaring "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (SRTOL) defends the rights of students and all other writers to use different varieties of English (see Committee on CCCC Language Statement, 1974). In addition, the 1988 CCCC adoption of the National Language Policy (NLP), which was a response to the English-Only Movement, boldly asserts that English-Only is educationally unsound. However progressive these policies may be, there still remains a request from teachers on how to identify and develop effective pedagogies that advance language diversity in the classroom. The present research study responds to this problem by introducing a social justice approach to writing instruction that recognizes African and African American contributions to standardized American written communication structures. Using culturally relevant pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy as theoretical frames, I explore the effects of a "comparative approach" to African American Language and Literacy instruction, which makes clear that African American Verbal Tradition (AVT) may be incorporated into expected conventions for academic writing. This case study takes place in two first-year writing courses at a major Midwestern university in which students are introduced to AVT. AVT is a broad linguistic tradition; therefore I have selected five features of AVT to investigate: (1) repetition, (2) signifyin[g] and indirection, (3) call response, (4) narrativizing, and (5) sounding. My project uses social justice as a framework that I developed through my own teaching practices, which highlights the linguistic abilities AAL speakers bring with them to the classroom and how these complex and intellectual writing skills can be expanded. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10