The Misteaching Of Academic Discourses

"The Misteaching of Academic Discourses is the story of one teacher's attempt to teach working-class minority students the mainstream academic ways of speaking necessary for success in school. Lilia Bartolome captures the ideological battle of wills that results in her classroom as she unmasks the veiled antagonistic relationship between herself, a white teacher, and her Mexican-American students." "Unlike more conventional literature on language learning in which the political dimensions of language learning are seldom acknowledged or addressed, Bartolome candidly discusses the dominant deficit ideology that underlies the cultural difference explanations of linguistic minority students' academic under-achievement. She also tackles the romanticization ideology that implicitly presents dominant culture ways of speaking as more advanced and desirable."--Jacket.