Short Paper Proposal
Frank DiMaria
For my short paper I would like to investigate various “home” dialects that students would use within a classroom, and also investigate how teachers view allowing students to use their own home language within the classroom. I would like to ask questions like, what are considered home dialects? How do these dialects differ between at risk students and higher income school districts? And what are the various educational views concerning allowing or rejecting a students home language within the classroom. I will start my investigation by doing some Internet research on the topic, and I will also contact a friend who is a speech and English teacher for at risk students in Buffalo.
Working Bibliography
The Skin We Speak, Lisa Delpit.
Mrs. Reiser, speech/English teacher.
Cool. Have you read Richard Rodrigues' Hunger of Memory (or something like that)?
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