Affirming Students' Right to Their Own Language: Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices

Editor(s): Jerrie Cobb Scott, Dolores Y. Straker, Laurie Katz

This landmark volume responds to the call to attend to the unfinished pedagogical business of the NCTE Conference on College Composition and Communication 1974 Students’ Right to Their Own Language resolution. Chronicling the interplay between legislated/litigated education policies and language and literacy teaching in diverse classrooms, it presents exemplary research-based practices that maximize students’ learning by utilizing their home-based cultural, language, and literacy practices to help them meet school expectations.

Pre-service teachers, practicing teachers, and teacher educators need both resources and knowledge, including global perspectives, about language variation in PreK-12 classrooms and hands-on strategies that enable teachers to promote students’ use of their own language in the classroom while also addressing mandated content and performance standards. This book meets that need. Routledge and NCTE.

448 pp. 2008. Grades: Pre-K–12. ISBN 978-0-8058-6349-9.

No. 00856

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ISBN: 978-0-8058-6349-9

Grade Level(s): Elementary, Middle, Secondary

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