ERIC Number: EJ861867
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 21
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"They're in My Culture, They Speak the Same Way": African American Language in Multiethnic High Schools
Paris, Django
Harvard Educational Review, v79 n3 p428-448 Fall 2009
In this article, Paris explores the deep linguistic and cultural ways in which youth in a multiethnic urban high school employ linguistic features of African American Language (AAL) across ethnic lines. The author also discusses how knowledge about the use of AAL in multiethnic contexts might be applied to language and literacy education and how such linguistic and cultural sharing can help us forge interethnic understanding in our changing urban schools. The article not only fosters an understanding of how AAL works in such multiethnic urban schools, but also sheds light on opportunities for a pedagogy of pluralism--a stance toward teaching both within and across differences. (Contains 1 table and 18 notes.)
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Urban Schools, Literacy Education, Linguistics, Black Dialects, African American Students, Student Diversity, Cultural Influences, Ethnicity, Cultural Pluralism, High School Students, Ethnography, Language Usage, Grammar, Racial Factors, Hispanic American Students, Pacific Islanders, Minority Groups
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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