Dear all,
The article I had mentioned in _English Teaching_
is "What do we do about student grammar -- All those missing -ed's and
-s's? Using comparison and contrast to teach Standard English in
dialectally diverse classrooms"
it's available at
http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?article=true&id=283&p=1
ciao!
rebecca
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Department of English
Christopher Newport University
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Rebecca Wheeler" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:41 am
Subject: Re: Sources for History of Southern American English
> Dear Jed,
> Big smiles! Thank you for your kind words. I'm really glad to hear
> thatmy works are useful with your students. Am always eager to hear
> feedback. So please feel free to share my email address.
>
> Now that I think of it, one of my recent articles deals very much with
> some of the tensions of dealing with stigmatized language varieties in
> the U. S. South. It's a piece that appeared in a New Zealand online
> journal _English Teaching: Practice and Critique_. After sharing
> vignettes from my collaborator's third grade classroom where she
> implements contrastive analysis and code-switching with her 2nd and
> 3rdgraders, I share principles that have allowed me to successfully
> defusesocial and political concerns of principals, central school
> officeadministrators, teachers, students, parents, politicans,
> reporters, etc
> as I go about doing this work using linguistic approaches to teaching
> Standard English in diverse classrooms.
>
> And my book, __Code-switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban
> Classrooms_ has an extended section in chapter 1 dealing with "the
> vexing problem of terminology" that speaks specifically to talking
> witheducators about language varieties in the U. S. south.
>
> Hmm... I may be repeating earlier list info, but _English Teaching:
> Practice and Critique_ has just put out a VERY interesting two-volume
> series, featuring, for example, Martha Kolln, Craig Hancock, and
> ConnieWeaver exploring issues of what counts as knowledge about
> grammar, whose
> grammar, etc.. And the editor, Terry Locke, provides a beautifully
> insightful overview, introduction. Check it out! Here are the URLs
>
> (part one -- December 2005)
> http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?id=10&p=1
> (part two -- May 06)
> http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?current=true&p=1
>
> yeah, I'm SURE martha and Craig must have talked extensively about
> theseissues. so please pardon the repetition.
>
> cheers all!
>
> Rebecca Wheeler
>
>
>
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> Associate Professor of English Education
> Department of English
> Christopher Newport University
> Newport News, VA 23606
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John E. Dews-Alexander" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:58 pm
> Subject: Re: Sources for History of Southern American English
>
> > Dr. Wheeler,
> > I am certainly familiar with your work. Language Alive in the
> > Classroom and your code-switching articles are required reading
> in
> > my teacher education classes! Thank you so much for your
> thoughtful
> > response -- I'm going to look into those sources as soon as I get
> a
> > chance. The ADS work would be fantastic! I hadn't thought to look
> > into Dr. Wolfram's work, but I bet it's a goldmine!
> > Thanks again -- it's a very surreal experience to receive an
> e-
> > mail from someone whose work you've dealt with so much! I'm sure
> > all of ATEG's membership is looking forward to your future work!
> > Jed
> >
> > "Dr. Rebecca Wheeler" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear Jed,
> > Walt Wolfram's work at North Carolina State University is
> > unsurpassed on
> > history and systematicity of southern dialects. See some of his
> > stuff at
> > http://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/bios/wolfram.htm
> >
> > Further, and i don't have the exact cite here, but I believe the
> > American Dialect Society recently came out with a special volume on
> > Southern American English, so that's worth checking into.
> >
> > My own work in teacher education and code-switching is available
> > throughthe NCTE -- see either my NCTE consultant website or my
> CNU
> > facultywebsite for articles and a link to my recent book on Code-
> > switching.
> > Wolfram has a whole middle school curriculum he's co-constructed
> with> Jeffrey Reaser, his former grad student who is now on faculty
> with
> > NCSU.
> > For further south, you might try Bethany Dumas's work -- she's
> > worked on
> > the languages of the Ozark Mountains. I believe she's at U.
> Tennessee,> Knoxville.
> >
> > Have at it!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rebecca Wheeler
> >
> >
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> > Associate Professor
> > Department of English
> > Christopher Newport University
> > Newport News, VA 23606
> >
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> >
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John E. Dews-Alexander"
> > Date: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:51 pm
> > Subject: Sources for History of Southern American English
> >
> > > Hi again, ATEGers!
> > > I already have a question for you! Perhaps I should have sent
> > > this to a dialectology listserv, but I trust this group to have
> > > more than one person who knows this subject matter better than
> most.> > I'm working on a project over the summer that I want to
> use
> > > with local secondary schools (11th and 12th graders) here in
> > north
> > > Alabama to initiate conversations about language variety,
> > dialects,
> > > etc. I want to eventually convey the idea of what many of these
> > > students speak (Southern American English, African American
> > > English, Chicano English, etc) is in no way bad, lazy or any
> > other
> > > prescriptive nonsense, but just different varieties of English
> > with
> > > their own structures and rich histories. Basically, I need a
> way
> > to
> > > quickly debunk their own insecurities about their language
> > > competence and get them thinking descriptively (this part of a
> > > larger project to teach grammar within this context).
> > > The best way I've found to break down language myths is to
> > > expose them for what they are using 1) examples of
> systematicity
> > > within dialects and 2) tidbits of historical linguistic
> accounts
> > of
> > > the language variety in question.
> > > Systematicity I'm comfortable with, but historical linguistics
> > > is a relatively new field for me. Thanks to lots of great,
> easily
> > > accessible materials on African American English and Chicano
> > > English, I've had no problems pulling together some highlights
> of
> > > the language history, the processes of sound and syntactic
> > change,
> > > etc. However, with Southern American English, I'm having more
> of
> > a
> > > problem.
> > > I want to be able to tell the students where their language
> > > variety comes from, where their non-standard grammatical
> features
> > > can be traced to, etc. I've got a couple of leads on the Scots-
> > > Irish immigrants, especially in north Alabama, but my searches
> > > aren't turning up much.
> > > Is there a particular author(s) that someone can recommend for
> > > this topic or some particular works? Herb, based on your posts,
> I
> > > thought you might have some ideas of what I should be looking
> for
> > > to unravel the history of Southern American English. Is there a
> > > standard work to consult?
> > > I would be glad to provide more specific examples of the kind
> > > of questions I have, but I thought it might be easier to start
> > out
> > > with just a broad question and see if any references come up.
> > > Thanks for any help you can provide!
> > > Jed
> > >
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