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Chapter 17. Reconstructing Teacher Roles through a Transnational Lens: Learning with/in the American University of Beirut

Year: 2014

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Placing an emphasis on the formalities of academic American English for the writing of these students, they say, may lead to an "inappropriate negative evaluation of those who do not become particularly proficient" (p.413).It's important to note that this insistence on SWE has also been challenged on many fronts in the literature from composition studies: from process movement advocates (see, for example, Ken Macrorie's attack on "Engfish" in Uptaught, 1970), from arguments around valuing black English vernacular (see, for example, Geneva Smitherman's Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America, 1977), from "alternate discourse" perspectives (see, for example, Pat Bizzell, Chris Schroeder, and Helen Fox's collection Alt

Source: The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press eBooks

DOI: 10.37514/per-b.2014.0551.2.17

Authors: Amy Zenger, Joan Mullin, Carol Peterson Haviland

Institutions: American University of Beirut, Illinois State University, University of California System

Language: English

Topic: Linguistics and Education Research

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: University of Oxford