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March 29, 2017
The Misteaching of Academic Discourses: The Politics of Language in the Classroom
- Author
- Bartolome, Lilia I.
- Publisher
- Westview Press, Boulder, CO
- ISBN
- 813331455
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
ch. 1 Understanding Academic Discourses
ch. 2 Language and Ideology: The (Il)literacy of Linguistic-Minority Students
ch. 3 A Potentially Ideal Classroom
ch. 4 The Misteaching of Academic Discourses: Three Discourse Events
ch. 5 Student Language Performance on Language Tasks
ch. 6 Rethinking Academic Discourses: Some Pedagogical Comments
Notes
Index
Bartolome explores issues in teaching working-class minority students the mainstream academic ways of speaking necessary for success in school. Drawing from her own experience as a white teacher of Mexican- American students, she reveals the veiled antagonism between students and teacher, emphasizes the political dimensions of language, and critiques the dominant deficit ideology that underlies the cultural difference explanation of academic underachievement among linguistic minority students. (From the Publisher)