The skin that we speak pdf download

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Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. No notes for slide. The Skin That We Speak 1. With my friends I speak English slang and sometimes Spanish. No more hesitation of translating Trinidadian to British idiom, no more the self-doubt associated with being perceived as a second language learner.

But now, at last, I had the dignity of shaping my world as I saw it and the ability to name the world the world in the way that I experienced it.

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Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Visibility Others can see my Clipboard. Cancel Save. Part One, Language and Identity, includes personal essays that explore the struggles of two individuals with issues of identity connected to the languages they were raised to speak.

She writes about the tension among her multiple identities, which were tied up in these two dialects or linguistic codes, and how, through acting, she gives her Trinidadian self credibility and acceptance. Ernie Smith, in "Ebonics: A Case History," traces his own educational, linguistic, and professional history as he evolved from failing student and street hustler to community and civil rights activist. The second part, Language in the Classroom, examines language attitudes in the classroom and addresses ways to constructively combat the negative consequences of such attitudes.

In "No Kinda Sense," Lisa Delpit describes hearing her year-old daughter Maya begin to speak African American English after transferring from a mostly White private school to a predominantly African American charter school. In "Trilingualism," Judith Baker, a high school English teacher at a large vocational school in Boston, presents strategies she has employed to help her students understand and feel respect for their home language, while supporting their writing and speaking abilities in many ways.

Michael Stubbs focuses on the relationship between language and perceptions of social class, level of education, and family background, noting that stereotypes and social meanings are often propagated through the schools themselves.

Hilliard picks up on this theme of how language attitudes disadvantage African Americans, saying we must "re-educate our nation to the truth about language" p. The last two chapters in this section, by Gloria Ladson-Billings and Victoria Purcell-Gates, focus specifically on how teacher attitudes affect educational outcomes for linguistic minority children. Ladson-Billings writes about a six-year-old African American girl, Shannon, who risks being educationally shortchanged because her teacher allows her to refuse to do simple writing assignments, day after day.