[EDLING:458] Re: Fwd: AAVE Resources

[Lynn Goldstein]

I have an article in TESOL Quarterly looking at AAVE as a target for ESL
learners in the New York City Metropolitan Area:

Goldstein, L. (1987). Standard English: The only target for non-native
speakers of  English?  TESOL Quarterly, 21, #3, 417-438.

Lynn Goldstein
Professor, TESOL and Applied Linguistics
The Monterey Institute of International Studies
edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu writes:
>Hi Everyone:  Daryl Gordon, an alum of the EdLx program, is requesting
>some help
>with bibliography for AAVE, identity & ESL learners.  Please see the
>message
>below for more specifics.  (Despite the message, I am not the one who
>wrote her
>dissertation on AAVE, so I could not really help her.)  I think she would
>appreciate any help you can give.  Thanks, Tamara
>
>
>----- Forwarded message from Daryl Gordon <daryl at temple.edu> -----
>    Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:09:31 -0500
>    From: Daryl Gordon <daryl at temple.edu>
>Reply-To: Daryl Gordon <daryl at temple.edu>
> Subject: AAVE Resources
>      To: 'Tamara Warhol' <warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu>
>
>
>Dear Tamara,
>
>Hope all's well with you.  I was thinking of you the other day when I was
>talking to John Pell, a student in my TESOL methodology class.  He's
>interested in AAVE resources and some of the identity issues involved in
>ESL
>learners being exposed to and learning more about AAVE.  We read
>Ibrahaim's
>article, "Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, Race, Gender, Identity and the
>Politics of ESL Learning" in the 1999 TQ and it sparked conversation about
>the prospect for AAVE as a target for ESL learners.  I know that your
>dissertation research touched on AAVE and I suggested that you might be a
>good source for readings on this topic.  I'm aware of Labov's work with
>BVE,
>but haven't really followed this research.  Can you give John (and me)
>some
>ideas for readings in this area?  Maybe a portion of your dissertation
>bibliography?
>
>I'm cc'ing John on this email, as well, so he can follow-up with any more
>specific questions he has about this.
>
>All best,
>
>Daryl
>
>
>
>***************************
>Daryl Gordon
>Project SHINE
>Temple University
>1601 N. Broad St., USB 206
>Philadelphia, PA  19122
>Phone: (215) 204-8058
>Fax: (215) 204-3195
>Email:  <mailto:daryl at temple.edu> daryl at temple.edu
>Website:
><file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Daryl%20Gordon\Application%20Data\Mic
>rosoft\Signatures\www.projectshine.org> www.projectshine.org
>
>
>
>----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
>
>--
>Tamara Warhol
>PhD Student
>Graduate School of Education
>University of Pennsylvania
>Philadelphia, PA
>warholt at dolphin.upenn.edu
>
>