Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education

• Published in: Harvard educational review Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 149 - 171
• Main Authors: Flores, Nelson, Rosa, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Harvard Education Publishing Group 01.06.2015; Harvard Education Press
• Subjects: Black Dialects; Classification; Criticism; Decision-making; Education; English (Second Language); English as a second language learning; Equal Education; Foreign policy; Heritage Education; Heritage language; Ideology; Language Attitudes; Language diversity; Language ideologies; Language Skills; Language use; Language Variation; Languages; Metalinguistics; Migration; Minority Group Students; Multilingualism; Nonstandard Dialects; Racial Attitudes; Regulation; Romani people; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Standard Spoken Usage; Students; Teaching Methods; Theoretical linguistics; Whites; World War II; New York; United States > US; Massachusetts

In this article, Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa critique appropriateness-based approaches to language diversity in education. Those who subscribe to these approaches conceptualize standardized linguistic practices as an objective set of linguistic forms that are appropriate for an academic setting....