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Subject(s)

• Linguistic minorities—Education—United States [Browse]
• English language—Study and teaching—United States—Foreign speakers [Browse]
• English language—Social aspects [Browse]

Series

• Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Multicultural education series

Summary note

This timely book takes a critical look at the teaching of English, showing how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the country. Motha closely examines the work of four ESL teachers who developed anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching. Their experiences, and those of their students, provide a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive teaching in spite of school cultures that often discourage such approaches. The author combines current research with her original analyses to shed light on real classroom situations faced by teachers of linguistically diverse populations. This book will help pre- and in-service teachers to think about such challenges as differential achievement between language learners and native-speakers; about hierarchies of languages and language varieties; about the difference between an accent identity and an incorrect pronunciation; and about the use of students first languages in English classes. This resource offers implications for classroom teaching, educational policy, school leadership, and teacher preparation, including reflection questions at the end of each chapter. -- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Series forward
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Operating in Concert: Empure, Race, and Language Ideologies
• Teaching Empire or Teaching English
• English, Antiracist Pedagogies and Multiculturalism
• Producting Place and Race: Language Varieties and Nativeness
• Toward a Provincialized English
• Appendix: Telling someone Else's Stories
• References
• Index
• About the Author

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ISBN

• 9780807755129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807755125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780807755136 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0807755133 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0807772712 (ebook)
• 9780807772713 (ebook)

LCCN

2013044862

OCLC

867769830

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