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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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A Bridge from Home to School: Helping Working Class Students Acquire School Literacy
- Source: English Journal, Volume 90, Issue And Language for All, Mar 2001, p. 74 - 81
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- 01 Mar 2001
Abstract
Discusses how and why a pedagogy of overt comparison between students’ home language (vernacular dialects of English) and school language (standard English) helps students learn the more global features of academic writing and the more sentenced-level features of Standard English. Outlines a pedagogy of overt comparison. Notes it motivates students, helps them learn conventions of academic writing, and develop proofreading skills.
© 2001 by the National Council of Teachers of English