Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms: Power, Prestige, and Prejudice

By Michelle D Devereaux and Michelle D. Devereaux

Book Overview

Offering resources for secondary English teaching that respect students' language varieties as strengths on which to build, this text shows how to move from traditional correctionist techniques to a linguistically informed approach to dialects in the classroom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041581846X
• ISBN13: 9780415818469
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"