A rich history of scholarship has demonstrated the ways in which popular stereotypes of
disenfranchised communities, including people living in poverty, affect individual biases and …

This study investigates cases of language 'policing'as educational language policies, and
the way that these are represented across different policy levels. Focusing on UK schools …

This review represents research employing discourse analysis conducted by scholars
interested in literacy issues in education across the age span—preschool to adult—during …

This article presents an analysis of the standard language ideology within a corpus of school-
designed language policy documents from 264 primary schools in England. It examines the …

Teacher education has redoubled efforts to prepare a predominantly monolingual teaching
force for linguistic diversity in US schools. Some jurisdictions are requiring specific teacher …

Scholarship on dialect diversity in classrooms has yielded two seemingly incompatible lines
of research. Although numerous pedagogical approaches have been shown to provide …

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis
of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to …

This chapter defines and describes language ideologies, the abstract (and often implicit)
belief systems related to language and linguistic behavior that affect speakers' choices and …

Sociolinguists have been fighting dialect prejudice since the 1960s, but deficit views of non-
standard English are regaining currency in educational discourse. In this paper I argue that …

Since the 1950s, in analyzing the reasons US schools fail African American learners,
sociolinguists have located dialectal difference as central to the educational theater of …