Five Easy Pieces: Steps toward Integrating AAVE into the Classroom

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Five Easy Pieces: Steps toward Integrating AAVE into the Classroom
Jessica Whitney

Jessica Whitney argues that teachers must value students’ home language “and use it to help students become more effective rhetoricians.” She offers five steps for educators to take.

English Journal, Volume 94, Number 5, May 2005

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