Antonice's Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

11-8-08

1. Wolfram, Walt; Mallinson, Christine. “Dialect Accomodations in a Bi-Ethnic Mountain Enclave Community.” Evidence on the Development of African American English.

AAVE changes or accommodates to the environment in which it is used. Two people who both technically speak AAVE may use it differently because they are apart of separate communities. This is a reliable source because Walt Wolfram is a distinguished professor of English Linguistics. He has wrote about similar topics prior, and also is of Caucasian decent which gives me a different view on AAVE from some one not of African American decent.

2. Ball, Arnetha. “Expository Writing Patterns of African American Students.” The

English Journal 85.1 (1996): 27-36.

In this Article Ball speaks about how students who use AAVE bring a lot to a classroom because of its language variation. Although many feel that AAVE lacks the quality of Standard English and the language is viewed as abnormal in some since it shows the emotions and culture of the student, which has importance. This is useful because it gives me a view on AAVE in the 1990’s for my argument of how views change over time.

3. Rickford, John. “Spoken Soul; The Story of Black English” New York; Wiley,

2000. Pp. 268.

This article expresses that there is a difference between the way Blacks speak and the way Whites or other cultures speak, and that should be known, but also the use of code-switching should not be looked down upon. He says that one should be able to code-switch when the environment is acceptable for it. And he feels that AAVE can accomplish what SE can not. This is valid for my argument because it gives me a recent argument and view on AAVE.

4. Ramsey, Paul A. “Teaching the Teachers to Teach Black-Dialect Writers.” College English 41.2 (1979): 197-201.

Ramsey states in his article that it is important for all students to work on their writing skills and perfect them, not only the black students or AAVE speaking students. Teachers should teach every student the same thing because they are a teacher and that is what they are supposed to do. You can make a student learn something they are not interested in. He feel that you shouldn’t make a student Standard English.

5. Nembhard, Judith. "A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students

to Write Standard English." The Journal of Negro Education 52.1 (1983): 75-82.

Nembhard explains in her excerpt “A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English” that a student is not a bad writer because they speak in AAVE. She expresses different ways she feels teachers can help their AAVE speaking students because great writers, and tell them not to stay stuck on the way a student may speaks so that they can affectively teach the student. This is will be helpful in my argument towards AAVE because I can easily understand what her view is on the topic and I can gain many ideas from it when I can fully understand something.