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Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle
Linguistic Discrimination In Writing Assessment: How Raters React To African American “Errors,” Esl Errors, And Standard English Errors On A State-Mandated Writing Exam, David M. Johnson, Lewis Vanbrackle
Faculty and Research Publications
Raters of Georgia''s (USA) state-mandated college-level writing exam, which is intended to ensure a minimal university-level writing competency, are trained to grade holistically when assessing these exams. A guiding principle in holistic grading is to not focus exclusively on any one aspect of writing but rather to give equal weight to style, vocabulary, mechanics, content, and development. This study details how raters react to “errors” typical of African American English writers, of ESL writers, and of standard American English writers. Using a log-linear model to generate odds ratios for comparison of essays with these error types, results indicate linguistic discrimination …
Sudden Possibilities: Porpoises, Eggcorns, And Error, Darren Crovitz
Sudden Possibilities: Porpoises, Eggcorns, And Error, Darren Crovitz
Faculty and Research Publications
[...] the keys to their development as writers often lie hidden in the very features of their writing that English teachers have been trained to brush aside with a marginal code letter or a scribbled injunction to "Proofread!" (5) A punitive emphasis on correctness, Shaughnessy argues, can actually have the opposite of its intended effect on basic writers, stifling their experiments with language for fear of failure (8). A reflection on the rationale of error-making must extend beyond a student's apparent inability to memorize and apply a rule, toward deeper considerations: "a teacher who would work with [basic writers] might …
Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason
Creating A Space For Yal With Lgbt Content In Our Personal Reading: Creating A Place For Lgbt Students In Our Classrooms, Katherine Mason
Faculty and Research Publications
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Register And Charge: Using Synonym Maps To Explore Connotation, Darren Crovitz, Jessica A. Miller
Register And Charge: Using Synonym Maps To Explore Connotation, Darren Crovitz, Jessica A. Miller
Faculty and Research Publications
To "help students think carefully about specific words and their uses," Darren Crovitz and Jessica A. Miller conceive a diagram that visually expresses the spaces and ties between words. Students eagerly explore contextual connotations and defend subtle shifts in word meaning, discovering how time, use, and circumstance all influence meaning.
Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz
Bias And The Teachable Moment: Revisiting A Teacher Narrative, Darren Crovitz
Faculty and Research Publications
Such responsibility may be vital for English teachers, especially, as we strive to establish communities of writers and spaces for critical thinking and conversation. When I sat down to write about this experience, I saw it as an opportunity to discuss a taboo situation and its positive aftermath, with the aim of demonstrating how it might be possible to use such events as points of departure in creating engaging writing assignments.
Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby
Achieving Balance In Graduate Programs: Negotiating Best Practices, Dawn Latta Kirby
Faculty and Research Publications
The narrative introduction to the graduate catalogue at the state university where I work probably reads pretty much like the one at your college or university. The program of study for the masters degree specifies that inservice graduate students are to engage in an extensive study of content- related literature, theory, and research. Despite the rhetoric of graduate catalogs, teachers who enter graduate school programs begin their advanced studies, expecting- and sometimes vociferously demanding- coursework that will provide them with a practical framework for teaching English language arts in secondary schools. Their interest in studying theory and research is often …
Creating A Shared Space For English Education: The History Of A Personal And Professional Collaboration, Sarah Robbins, Maribeth Cooper
Creating A Shared Space For English Education: The History Of A Personal And Professional Collaboration, Sarah Robbins, Maribeth Cooper
Faculty and Research Publications
Robbins and Cooper share their experiences while developing a collaborative initiatives for English education. Collaboration was performed through the construction of shared languages and activities based on understandings of social action and used of postmodern mapping and boundary interrogation for critiquing and directing social interactions.