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Teaching writing in the African American classroom

a sociolinguistic approach

This study evaluates the outcomes of a ten-week elementary language arts curriculum designed to improve the writing achievement and experiences of children who speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The curriculum integrated sociolinguistic research with contemporary language arts pedagogy, using multicultural children's literature to teach about regional and social language variation, and incorporating dialect-based grammar instruction (contrastive analysis) into the writing process. Six upper-elementary teachers in an urban school district in Ohio participated in a workshop on sociolinguistic diversity and subsequently implemented the curriculum with 76 students. Student outcomes were compared with two groups of students in the same school district: three classes (41 students) that participated in a partial intervention and four classes (58 students) that received no intervention.

... Maddahian and Sandamela 2000; Taylor 1989), vernacular-based classroom
teaching techniques such as the use of call-and-response (Bohn 2003; Boone
2003; Foster 2001), or exploitation of culturally-based writing patterns and genres
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