Why Deny Speakers of African American Language a Choice Most of Us Offer Other Students?

Elbow, Peter

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Why Deny Speakers of African American Language a Choice Most of Us Offer Other Students?

dc.contributor.author	Elbow, Peter
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts - Amherst
dc.date	2023-09-22T20:35:21.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T16:38:39Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T16:38:39Z
dc.date.issued	2008-01-01
dc.description.abstract	Mainstream teachers commonly invite mainstream students to freewrite and use very informal language for early and mid drafts of important academic essays--and hold off surface editing till the end. This amounts to inviting mainstream students to do lots of writing in their spoken vernacular--and to wait till the end to edit into a clearly different dialect: edited ("correct standard") written English. This essay argues the same approach for speakers of African American Language--and addresses objections.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/23323
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dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	American Studies
dc.subject	English Language and Literature
dc.subject.category	ARRAY(0x5589c207ce00)
dc.title	Why Deny Speakers of African American Language a Choice Most of Us Offer Other Students?
dc.type	unpublished_paper
dc.type	article
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