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Learning to Talk Like the Test: Guiding Speakers of African American Vernacular English
Author(s) -
Fisher Douglas,
Lapp Diane
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.198
Subject(s) - vernacular , test (biology) , focus (optics) , code (set theory) , linguistics , mathematics education , african american , american english , psychology , computer science , sociology , programming language , paleontology , philosophy , physics , ethnology , set (abstract data type) , optics , biology
In this article, we focus on instructional support for 91 students who speak African American Vernacular English and who are at high risk for not passing the required state exams. We profile the instruction that was provided and the results from that instruction, providing examples of how students’ language was scaffolded such that they could code switch between test language (standard academic English) and the languages of their homes.