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| Title | Review: Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate |
| Body | From: http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1928.html Editors: Ramirez, J. David; Wiley, Terence G.; de Klerk, Gerda; Lee, Enid; and Wright, Wayne E. Reviewed by: Nkonko Kamwangamalu, Department of English, Howard University INTRODUCTION First published in 2000, Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate is an edited collection of 6 papers and 6 sets of documents aimed at providing a scholarly response to the controversy that erupted in 1996 in Oakland, California over the status and role of Ebonics in the education of African American (AA) students. The contributors to this volume view Ebonics as a non-standard variety of the English language (but see an opposite view in Kifano and Smith's paper, pp. 62-95). They argue that schools need to become more aware of language diversity and variation and use Ebonics as abridge in helping AA students learn Standard English to improve their academic performance in general, and in reading and language arts in particular. To read the complete review, visit: http://linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-1928.html |
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