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The application of linguistics to educational problems is an important part of sociolinguistics - in many ways, the question of how insight into language might inform and improve the teaching of reading was responsible for the development of the field. Understandably, then, this vital topic is an important area of research at Stanford. At the same time, the everyday use of language in and around the schools Evaluation of Contextualized Contrastive Analysis in Language Arts Instruction Julie Sweetland (John Rickford, Advisor) This dissertation research involves the development, implementation, and evaluation of a linguistically-informed curriculum designed to improve the writing achievement and experiences of children who speak African American Vernacular English. Informed by Julie's experiences as classroom teacher, the curriculum is intended to educate teachers as well as students by presenting sociolinguistic concepts through teacher-friendly lessons that draw on children's literature and hands-on activities. The fifteen-lesson curriculum was recently implemented in several classrooms in Cincinnati, Ohio, and evaluation of teacher and student outcomes is currently underway. The Cincinnati Enquirer did a story on Julie's language awareness curriculum. Rickford, John R. and Angela E. Rickford. Updating Contrastive Analysis: Extending Students' Linguistic Versatility through Literature and Song." Paper presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV-31), October 2002, Stanford University. Sweetland, Julie and John R. Rickford. Using Children's Literature to Support Dialect-Based Language Arts Instruction. Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation annual conference, October 2004, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sweetland, Julie. Starting a metalinguistic conversation in the elementary classroom. Presented to the annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English, November 2004, Indianapolis, Indiana. Rickford, John R. 1999. Using the vernacular to teach the standard. InAfrican American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications. Oxford: Blackwell. Language and Education Resources Angela Rickford, John Rickford, Julie Sweetland, Tommy Grano We have been hard at work on an extensive annotated bibliography of resources related to language and education. The purpose of this project is to contribute to the field by providing a tool useful to those interested in how knowledge about language variation can be used to more effectively teach students who speak a nonstandard or stigmatized language variety. Currently, the bibliography consists of over 700 references, each of which has been assigned one or more topic codes to indicate the major threads. Rickford, John R. 1997. Unequal partnership: Sociolinguistics and the African American community. Language in Society 26:161-197. Rickford, John R., and Rickford, Angela E. 1995. Dialect readers revisited. Linguistics and Education 7:107-128. Rickford, John R, Sweetland, Julie, and Rickford, Angela E. 2004. African American English and Other Vernaculars in Education: A Topic-Coded Bibliography. Journal of English Linguistics 32:230-320. The Urban Minorities Project John Baugh, John Rickford, Angela Rickford This project, directed by Bill Labov and funded by the US Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Development and the Spencer Foundation, involves experimental use of the Individualized Reading Manual in 18 elementary schools in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and East Palo Alto. Stanford people are implementing this program in East Palo Alto. |