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Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice

Race, Empire, and English Language Teaching: Creating Responsible and Ethical Anti-Racist Practice

Motha, Suhanthie

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Series: Multicultural Education

English as a Second LanguageGeneral Education

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ISBN10: 0807755125
ISBN13: 9780807755129
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: Apr 18 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.18 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools across the United States. Drawing on the work of four ESL teachers who pursued anti-racist pedagogical practices during their first year of teaching, the author provides a compelling account of how new teachers might gain agency for culturally responsive teaching in spite of school cultures that often discourage such approaches. She combines current research and original analyses to shed light on real classroom situations faced by teachers of linguistically diverse populations. This book will help pre- and inservice teachers to think about such challenges as differential achievement between language learners and native-speakers; hierarchies of languages and language varieties; the difference between an accent identity and an incorrect pronunciation; and the use of students' first languages in English classes. An important resource for classroom teaching, educational policy, school leadership, and teacher preparation, this volume includes reflection questions at the end of each chapter.

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