Friday, October 12, 2018

Ebonics and Language Diversity

Currently, I'm in the prewriting stage for a book about language diversity. The book is based upon a real-life experience about when I taught in Oakland, California. I taught there during the Ebonics controversy (1980s).

That controversy was to have African American students use nonstandard language (Ebonics) as a springboard to learning standard English. I considered that it was just a different way of teaching grammar. I remember being trained how to teach it. It actually wasn't a bad idea because nonstandard language exists in popular culture and now from texting.

Controversy about Ebonics instruction came like a tidal wave because it was interpreted that people were saying that Ebonics was a language just like English.  Ebonics (called African American Vernacular English) has its roots in African language and culture.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

ITL 600

Hello ITL Students and Others:

This is my blog.

It reads like a journal. This is my latest entry.

Check out the article about URLs.