Code-switching : teaching standard English in urban classrooms / Rebecca S. Wheeler, Rachel Swords.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Theory & research into practice.
Main Author:	Wheeler, Rebecca S., 1952-
Other Authors:	Swords, Rachel
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, [2006], ©2006.
Series:	Theory & research into practice.
Subjects:	English language > Study and teaching > United States. English language > Standardization. Education, Urban > United States. Urban dialects > United States.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xvi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format:	Book

Partial Contents:

pt. 1. Insights from theory and research. The lay of the land: old and new perspectives in language arts
Moving from correction to contrast: code-switching in diverse classrooms
Linguistic insights from the language arts classroom
Code-switching succeeds in teaching standard English
pt. 2. Classroom Practice. Diversity in Language
Teaching noun patterns: Possessives
Teaching noun patterns: plurals
Teaching subject-verb agreement
Teaching past time
Teaching gonna/going to
Code-switching with more complex patterns
Code-switching in the reading and writing classroom
Encountering new patterns / Rebecca S. Wheeler and Rachel Swords.