1st Edition

The Misteaching Of Academic Discourses The Politics Of Language In The Classroom

By Lilia I Bartolome Copyright 1998
160 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses the significance of teaching working-class linguistic minority students academic discourse styles necessary for success in school and describes one teacher's attempts to do so. It is for all those educators who are faced with issues of language, race, and class.

Foreword -- Understanding Academic Discourses -- Language and Ideology: The (II)literacy of Linguistic Minority Students -- A Potentially Ideal Classroom -- The Misteaching of Academic Discourses: Three Discourse Events -- Student Language Performance on Language Tasks -- Rethinking Academic Discourses: Some Pedagogical Comments

Biography

Lilia I. Bartolomé