Affirming students' right to their own language : bridging language policies and pedagogical practices / edited by Jerrie Cobb Scott, Dolores Y. Straker, Laurie Katz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cross-currents in language policies and pedagogical practices / Jerrie Cobb Scott, Dolores Y. Straker, and Laurie Katz -- Perspectives on language policies and pedagogical practices. Interview 1. Issues in global and local language policies / Joel Spring ; Interview 2. An insider's view of African American language policies and pedagogies / Geneva Smitherman ; Interview 3. The law of language in the United States / Christina M. Rodriguez ; Interview 4. What teachers need to know to educate English language learners / Mary Carol Combs -- The hidden linguistic legacies of Brown v. Board and No Child Left Behind / John Baugh and Aaron Welborn -- Portraits, counterportraits, and the lives of children : language, culture, and possibilities / Rick Meyer -- Restore my language and treat me justly : indigenous students' rights to their tribal languages / Dorothy Aguilera and Margaret D. LeCompte -- Power, politics, and pedagogies : re-imagining students' right to their own language through democratic engagement / Valerie Kinloch -- Exploring attitudes toward language differences : implications for teacher education programs / Laurie Katz, Jerrie Cobb Scott, and Xenia Hadjioannou -- Positionality : using self-discovery to enhance pre-service teachers' understanding of language differences / Nancy Rankie Shelton -- Beyond the silence : instructional approaches and students' attitudes / David E. Kirkland and Austin Jackson -- "We have our own language as well as the languages we bring" : constructing opportunities for learning through a language of the classroom / Beth V. Yeager and Judith L. Green -- "Taylor cat is black" : code-switch to add standard English to students' linguistic repertoires / Rebecca S. Wheeler -- There's no "1" way to tell a story / Laurie Katz and Tempii Champion -- Culturally responsive read-alouds in first grade : drawing upon children's languages and cultures to facilitate literary and social understandings / Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, Joy Bowman, and Angela Johnson Rietschlin --

Developing culturally responsive teacher practitioners through multicultural literature / Tamara L. Jetton, Emma Savage-Davis, and Marianne Baker -- Educating the whole child : English language learners in a middle school / Mari Haneda -- New Chinese immigrant students' literacy development : from heritage language to bilingualism / Danling Fu -- High stakes testing and the social languages of literature and literate achievement in urban classrooms / Dorothea Anagnostopoulos -- Possibilities for non-standard dialects in American classrooms : lessons from a Greek Cypriot class / Xenia Hadjioannou -- The writing on the wall : graffiti and other community school practices in Brazil / Ana Christina Dasilva Iddings -- The social construction of literacy in a Mexican community : coming soon to your school? / Patrick H. Smith, Luz A. Murillo, and Robert T. JimeÌnez -- Multilingualism in classrooms : the paritetic school system of the Ladin Valleys in South Tyrol (Italy) / Gerda Videsott -- Educational policies and practices in post-apartheid South Africa : the case for indigenous African languages / Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu -- Meaningful early literacy learning experiences : lessons from South Africa / Carole Bloch -- India's multilingualism : paradigm and paradox / Zarina Manawwar Hock -- Afterword: Reflections on language policies and pedagogical practices / Jacqueline Jones Royster, Jerrie Cobb Scott, and Dolores Y. Straker.