Students' right to their own language : a critical sourcebook / edited by Staci Perryman-Clark, David E. Kirkland, Austin Jackson ; with a foreward by Geneva Smitherman.
"Published in cooperation with the National Council of Teachers of English/Conference on College Composition and Communication." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part 2: Introduction: No one has a right to his own language / Part 1: -- Foundations: -- Students' rights to their own language / Jeff Zorn -- CCCC's role in the struggle for language rights / Geneva Smitherman -- Students' rights to their own language, 1972-1974 / Stephen Parks -- Students' rights to their own language: its legal bases / Lawrence D Freeman -- In response to "The students' rights to their own language" / Ann E Berthoff and William C Clark -- Part 2: Politics Of Memory: Linguistic Attitudes And Assumptions Post-SRTOL: -- Linguistic memory and the politics of US English / John Trimbur -- Students' rights to their own language: a retrospective / Geneva Smitherman -- Students' rights to their own language: a counter-argument / Jeff Zorn -- No one has a right to his own language / A Suresh Canagarajah -- Place of world Englishes in composition: pluralization continued / Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback -- Part 4: Special Case Of African American Language: -- African American student writers in the NAEP, 1969-88/89 and "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice" / Geneva Smitherman -- Students' right to possibility: basic writing and African American rhetoric Keith Gilyard and Elaine Richardson -- I want to be African: in search of a black radical tradition/African-American-vernacularized paradigm for "students' rights to their own language," critical literacy, and "Class politics" / Carmen Kynard -- Writing, rhetoric, and American cultures (WRA) 125: writing: the ethnic and racial experience / Staci Perryman-Clark -- Part 4: Pluralism, Hybridity, And Space: -- Place of world Englishes in composition: pluralization continued / A Suresh Canagarajah -- Reflection of "students' rights to their own language" in first-year composition course objectives and descriptions / Stuart Barbier -- From Bad attitudes to(ward) linguistic pluralism: developing reflective language policy among preservice teachers / Gail Y Okawa -- Part 5: -- Critical Language Perspectives And Reimagining SRTOL In Writing Classrooms: -- Myth education: rationale and strategies for teaching against linguistic prejudice / Leah A Zuidema -- Pedagogies of the "Students' Right" Era: the language curriculum research group's project for linguistic diversity / Scott Wible -- From language experience to classroom practice: affirming linguistic diversity in writing pedagogy / Kim Brian Lovejoy, Steve Fox, and Katherine V Wills -- Reflection of "students' rights to their own language" in first-year composition course objectives and descriptions / Stuart Barbier -- Where we go from here / Ted Lardner -- Revisiting the promise of students' rights to their own language: pedagogical strategies / Valerie Felita Kinloch -- Index. Lingering Questions: -- What should colleges teach? Part 3 / Stanley Fish -- What if we occupied language / H Samy Alim -- Where we go from here / Arnetha F Ball and Ted Lardner -- About the editors -- Index.
Summary:
Overview: Students' Right to Their Own Language collects perspectives from some of the field's most influential scholars to provide a foundation for understanding the historical and theoretical context informing the affirmation of all students' right to exist in their own languages. Co-published with the National Council for Teachers of English, this critical sourcebook archives decades of debate about the implications of the statement and explores how it translates to practical strategies for fostering linguistic diversity in the classroom.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.