Human Services and Counseling
The School of Education
Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and
Education
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Mahwah, NJ
2006, 320 pages
This edited volume brings together a multiplicity of voices,
both theoretical and practical, on the politics, challenges and
strategies of educating students who are speakers of diverse or
nonstandard varieties of English, Creoles and hybrid varieties of
English such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean
Creole English, Tex Mex, Indian English and West African Pidgin
English, among others.
“This volume is a timely one, as it brings into sharp focus the
issues and concerns that surround a substantial number of
non-English speaking students, who are often put into ESL
classrooms where they tend to languish rather than blossom. Shondel
J. Nero needs to be lauded and congratulated for bringing so large
a part of humanity, and yet so invisible, to our attention.”
—Kamal K. Sridhar, State University of New York at Stony Brook