Shondel Nero, Dohra Ahmad

Vernaculars in the Classroom (eBook, ePUB)

Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the intersection of applied linguistics and literature, this book explores productive uses of vernacular Englishes in secondary and university classrooms. Part I examines the historical devaluing of vernaculars, including the paradoxes surrounding vernacular use. Part II offers five teaching case studies using literary texts written in vernacular Englishes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135073626
• Artikelnr.: 41092868

Autorenporträt

Shondel Nero is Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at New York University, USA. She is the author of Englishes in Contact: Anglophone Caribbean Students in an Urban College and editor of Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education (Routledge). Her research has appeared in TESOL Quarterly, World Englishes, Language and Education, and other journals.

Dohra Ahmad is Associate Professor of English at St. John's University, USA. She is the author of Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America and editor of Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. Her essays have appeared in ELH, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Vernacular Englishes: Crossroads of Linguistics and Literature
1. Introduction
2. Vernacular Language and Literature: Myths and Paradoxes
3. Vernacular Use in School: Evolution of Responses and Related Challenges
4. Pedagogical Possibilities
Part II: Texts and Topics: Case Studies for Teaching
5. Canonicity and Intertextuality: Louise Bennett, "Bans O'Killing" and
Sapphire, Push
6. Authenticity: Zora Neale Hurston, "Story in Harlem Slang" and Paul
Keens-Douglas, "Wukhand"
7. Code-switching: John Kasaipwalova, "Betel Nut is Bad Magic for
Airplanes"; Louise Bennett, "Colonisation in Reverse"; Patricia Grace,
"Letters from Whetu"; and Others
8. Delegitimization: Mark Twain, "A True Story Repeated Word for Word as I
Heard It"
9. Form and Formal Innovation: Roddy Doyle, The Snapper
10. Conclusion