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

by Lilia I Bartolome

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367294113
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Bartolom<'e> (education, U. of Massachusetts-Boston) explores issues in teaching working-class minority students the mainstream academic ways of speaking necessary for success in school. Drawing from her own experience as a white teacher of Mexican- American students, she reveals the veiled antagonism between students and teacher, emphasizes the political dimensions of language, and critiques the dominant deficit ideology that underlies the cultural difference explanation of academic underachievement among linguistic minority students. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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