Authors: David Ramirez, J. David Ramirez
ISBN-13: 9781853597961, ISBN-10: 1853597961
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: 2ND
Seven leading scholars contribute six papers written in response to the national controversy that erupted following the 1996 Resolution on Ebonics by the Oakland Unified School District in California. The updated, second edition of the text reflects the ongoing media coverage, attacks by Ebonics critics, and scholarly analyses of the issues by linguists and educators since the 1996 Oakland Resolution. Also included are the texts of relevant documents and materials that accompanied the 1996 controversy, and a listing of media articles appearing after the 2000 first edition of this text. No subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1 | Ebonics : background to the current policy debate | 3 |
2 | Using the vernacular to teach the standard | 18 |
3 | Educational implications of ebonics | 41 |
4 | Black language and the education of black children : one mo once | 49 |
5 | Ebonics and education in the context of culture : meeting the language and cultural needs of LEP African American students | 62 |
6 | Language varieties in the school curriculum : where do they belong and how will they get there? | 96 |
A | Original Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) resolution on ebonics | 115 |
B | Congressional response, 105th Congress | 135 |
C | Martin Luther King Junior School v. Ann Arbor School District Board | 155 |
D | A linguist looks at the ebonics debate | 161 |
Ebonics and linguistic science : clarifying the issues | 170 | |
Dialect readers revisited | 178 | |
Congressional testimony | 180 | |
E | Policy statement of the TESOL board on African American vernacular English | 185 |
Policy statement of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) on the application of dialect knowledge to education | 186 | |
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) statement to the media on ebonics | 189 | |
California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) position statement on ebonics | 191 | |
F | Scholarly references and news titles | 199 |