Vernaculars in the Classroom: Paradoxes, Pedagogy, Possibilities

ISBN-13: 9781138286818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str.

Shondel Nero; Dohra Ahmad

Opis

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.

O autorze

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.