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Culturally and linguistically responsive instruction presentation
1. FACT: Teaching and learning
are rooted in and are
dependent upon a
common language
between teacher and
student.
2. NAEP Fourth Grade
Reading Performance
Texas
2008-2009
100% 20 12
42 46 14
80%
26 63
60%
36 34 74
40%
54 29
20% 22 20
8
0%
African White Hispanic Asian ELL/LEP
American
Proficient/Advanced Basic Below Basic
Source: National Center for Educational Statistics
3. African American English (noun):
a nonstandard form of American
English characteristically spoken
by some African Americans in the
United States.
4. Transforming Views
Then Now
“Pupils were made to scuff African American English
at the Negro dialect as has evolved to the point of
some peculiar possession of
the Negro which they dispelling the myth that
should despise, rather than African Americans are
directed to study the incapable of mastering
background of this language Standard English and bound
as a broken down African
tongue”. to a “language of illiteracy”
-Carter G. Woodson, 1933 (Christensen, 2008).
5.
6. Language 101:
Language in Communicative Context
• Pragmatics
Language as a Meaning System
• Semantics
Language as a Structured Rule-Governed System
• Syntax
• Morphology
• Phonology
7. The Development of AAE
Dialectologists
View
Deficit vs. Different Creolist
Perspective Theories Hypothesis
Ethnolinguistic
Theory
8. Ethnolinguist View
• Bambara • Kimbundu
• Ewe • Longo
• Fanta • Mandinka
• Fon • Mende
• Fula • Twi
• Hausa • Umbundu
• Igbo • Wolof
• Ibibio • Yoruba
Source: Turner, Lorenzo “Africanisms In The Gullah Dialect” 1973
9.
10. Characteristic Phonological
Features of AAE
Phonological Standard English African American
Variables English
Consonant Cluster desk, test, cold des, tes, col
/th/ sound this or mouth dis or mouf
/r/ sound sister sista
Stressed Syllables police police
11. Historic African American Legislation
Ebonics
Resolution of
Oakland
Martin Luther California
King Junior
Elementary
Brown v. Board School Children
of Education et al., v. Ann
Arbor School
The 13th District
Amendment
of the United
States
Constitution
12. Current Sociolinguistics
Educational
Theory &
Practice
Multicultural
Instructional
Practices
Improved Academic Performance for
African American Students
14. Culturally and Linguistically
Responsive Environments
Developing
Teacher Multicultural
Development Classrooms
School Tailoring
Environment Instruction
Family
Involvement
15. Teacher Development
Teacher
Development
Focus on providing professional
development on practices that
support culturally and
linguistically diverse learners.
16. School Environment
Focus on developing shared
responsibility for educating
students in an environment
that is steeped in the additive
view of culture and language.
School
Environment
17. Family Involvement
Focus on establishing open
communication with students
and their families.
Family
Involvement
18. Tailoring Instruction
Focus on teaching specific skills,
reteaching them utilizing significantly
different instructional approaches,
employing informal and formal
methods to assess individual students’
strengths and weaknesses.
Tailoring
Instruction
19. Developing Multicultural Classrooms
Developing
Multicultural
Focus on implementing Classrooms
instruction that optimizes
student achievement and
positively reinforcing cultural
identity.