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Get Published!
You are invited to submit an article for the upcoming 2004/2005 issues of the IBPFT Newsletters. The Newsletter is OUR forum to present OUR issues. Get involved, get published! Submit your writings to Nika Barnes via email at abarnes@ets.org or ibpft_tesol@yahoo.com
Recent IBPFT Newsletters:
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- Volume 1 - January 2001
- Volume 2 - Summer/Fall 2001
- Volume 3 - Conference Edition 2002
- Volume 5 (In MS Word format)
- Volume 6 (In MS Word format)
Publications from IBPFT Members
Selected Publications by Shondel Nero (IBPFT past chair)
Published
Book
Nero, S. (2001). Englishes in contact: Anglophone Caribbean students in an urban college. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Brief synopsis of book
This qualitative study of four English-speaking Caribbean students at a New York City college offers an in-depth examination of the students’ written and spoken language and the challenges faced by both students and teachers as nonstandard dialect-speaking students acquire academic literacy. Case studies of the four participants include excerpts from tape-recorded interviews, which reflect their linguistic self-perception, and sociolinguistic and educational experiences in the home country and in New York City. Samples of their college writing over four semesters are presented and analyzed. Related issues such as language and identity, language attitudes, and educational responses to ethnolinguistic diversity are also discussed.
Articles
Nero, S. (2002). Englishes, attitudes, education. English Today 18 (1), 53 – 56.
Nero, S. (2000). The changing faces of English: A Caribbean perspective. TESOL Quarterly 34 (3), 483 - 510.
Forthcoming
Edited book (under contract)
Nero, S. (Ed.). Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Brief synopsis of book
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices, both theoretical and practical, on the politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students who speak and/or write in dialects of English that are at variance with academic discourse. It focuses specifically on the increasing number of speakers of Standard English as a Second Dialect (SESD) or World Englishes (WE) that teachers confront daily in North American classrooms as a result of increased educational access, internal and global migration. Such students are often (mis)placed into English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, largely based on their little understood dialects or their poor performance on placement tests. These students typically speak dialects such as African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), Hispanized English, Caribbean Creole English, West African English, Indian English, among others, and many teachers are often unsure how to respond to their linguistic needs given their“English-speaking identity.” The volume suggests practical strategies for teachers of this population.
Article
Nero, S. Language, identities, and ESL pedagogy. Language and education (spring 2005)