Delpit_Ebonics
Don’t confuse this activity for reading comprehension
What is learning a new language form?
A model for acceptable or “correct” usage based on the language of cultural, economic, and political leaders.
What is Standard English?
The process whereby multilingual speakers utilize their languages as an integrated communication system.
What is translanguaging?
1954 Supreme Court case that ruled segregated schools unconstitutional
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
The only program besides English only that grew in size from 1992
What is Dual Language Programs?
1. Have a discussion about how different characters in TV shows talk differently 2. Read books written in the dialects of various cultures. 3. Audio tape and playback stories narrated by individuals from different cultures and dialects.
What are ways to introduce the study of language diversity in younger students?
Newscasters are taught to use this language
What is Network English?
translation liaisons who influence exchanges between individuals
What is a language broker?
Famous education act passed by George W. Bush in 2002 where goals and funding were focused on results of standardized tests.
What is No Child Left Behind Act?
The term for the strict separation of English from classrooms with another language of instruction.
What is bracketing?
Language Researcher Robert Berdan created an activity based on teacher’s behavior of over-correcting dialect. He put together rules from different dialects from around the U.S and called it THIS and College students were asked to read aloud in this dialect.
What is the “Language of Atlantis”?
The generation of Americans that will strive to better themselves by learning English as a second language.
What are First Generation Americans?
A small, underfunded, self-sustained educational mentoring program.
What is MANOS?
Another name for submersion or sink or swim programs in schools
What is English-Only?
Term often used to describe using the home language as a foundation to build off in trying to acquire a new language.
What is Scaffolding?
Researcher Sara Michaels and others, conducted a study analyzing adults’ perspectives on language/success correlations and found that other than grammar and syntax, THIS was different in children’s speech.
What are Narratives?
The age group that most likely feels the pressure of standardization
What are Young people?
an analytical unit situated in local contexts where texts are integral to bilingual exchanges and collaborative interpretations.
What is a translanguaging event?
Name of the school program that allows students and teachers agency in how much of class instruction is in the home language or in English
What is dynamic bi/plurilingual programs?
52% of the emergent bilingual population in the US are enrolled in this kind of language program
What is pull-out ESL?
“…the teacher’s job is to provide THIS to the national “standard”, as well as to understand the language the children speak sufficiently to celebrate its beauty.”
What is Access?
The two languages that conform to standard English. The word order of both languages is the same when asking a question or stating a statement.
What is Gullah and BEV?
Teachers can incorporate these into everyday lessons. For example, projects that ask students to explore the language and literacy of their classmates.
What are Translanguaging Practices?
Name of the school program that allows students and teachers agency in how much of class instruction is in the home language or in english
What is dynamic bi/plurilingual programs?
The new name of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Language Affairs (OBEMLA)
What is the Office of English Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for LEP students? (OELA)