Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom.

Wheeler, Rebecca S.; Swords, Rachel

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Publication Date: 2004-Jul-1

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Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom

Wheeler, Rebecca S.; Swords, Rachel

Language Arts, v81 n6 p470 Jul 2004

Linguistic structures and cultural conflicts are the reasons why African-American students fare poorly in literacy instructions in classrooms. Some ideas for creating an accessible, research-based approach to language arts in dialectally diverse classrooms are presented.

Descriptors: African American Students, Dialects, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics

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