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Paperback Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms Book

ISBN: 0814107028

ISBN13: 9780814107027

Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms

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Wheeler and Swords show K-6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.

When African American students write or say "Mama jeep is out of gas" or "The Earth revolve around the sun," many teachers--labeling this usage poor English or bad grammar--assume that their students have problems with possession or don't know how to make subjects...

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