For one of the genres for my MGE, I'm going to use Group Three, the "School" Writing genre. For the "School" Writing genre, I'm going to make a worksheet for students. Because my main theme for my MGE is the usage of AAVE, the first portion of my worksheet will be a matching section, where students take AAVE words and try to match them with SE words that correlate. For example, students would match the word "Ice" and the word "jewelry." "Ice" in AAVE means expensive jewelry. Another example would be the word "crib" and how it compares to the SE word "home." I would use 15-20 words or so for the students to compare. For the next section, I will have a fill in the blank section where students will use the words from the first section to fill in the blank in complete sentences. For example, "After class, Dwayne and I went back to my ______." In this instance, the student would want to use the word "crib" to complete the sentence. For the final section, I will take the words and make a crossword puzzle that will have clues to help the students decide where each word is placed inside the crossword puzzle. I think that with these three activities, the students will have a good initial grasp on AAVE usage. Between the type of Black Dialect words and their usage in sentences, the reader will be able to understand how AAVE is used.
For my second genre, I'm going to use Group Four - "Personal/Private" Writing. For Group Four, I'm going to use an e-mail exchange between two people. One of the persons will be a Standard English speaker, and the second person will be a African American Vernacular speaker. In the e-mail conversation, the two speakers will talk about a common subject, with each person using two different dialects. The students will each talk about their days and plans that they have in the future. The two friends will have an average conversation that will be able to expand many different subjects. It will show how African American Vernacular English can be used in any context and with any subject matter. By the end of the conversation, the two friends will be able to relate each others dialects and how similar both Standard English and African American Vernacular English are as forms of communication. They realize that though they are different, they are both adequate forms of communicating. They point of this conversation is for the reader to see the similarity between the two different dialects. The reader will be able to see how AAVE is used in comparison to SE in real life conversation.
The point of both of these groups is to show how AAVE is used in common conversation. The point is for the reader to be able to take away how AAVE is actually used in conversation. Not only will the readers be able to see how it is used, but they will also be able to participate in how it is used.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
DW 4a
African American Vernacular English is a very complex dialect. There are many complexities that have to deal with when and where Black Dialect speakers actually use AAVE is used as well as why BD speakers use AAVE. I'm going to discuss how AAVE is used/not used in different environments.
Black dialect is used in all forms of communication. As long as their is a mode of communication, AAVE can be used. It is used in daily conversation, as well as over the internet, and also schools. There are places where AAVE is spoken, like in home life, and there are times where it is not spoken, like at schools and work. Growing up, you learn your very first dialect. When you care younger, you use that dialect because its the only one you know, but as you grow older, you gain alternate dialects and then you begin using them at different times. But when you come home, it is easy to refute back to the time where you spoke freely in the dialect that felt most comfortable in the situation. AAVE is not the standard language in the work place. Actually, Standard English is the the standard language for more workplaces. Because of this, classrooms try to help AAVE speakers to write and speak in Standard English more fluently. Judith Nembhard gave tips on how to successfully teach AAVE speakers SE. For example, Nembhard states, "Teachers must demonstrate confidence in the students as potential learners"(Nembhard 437).
AAVE is also used on the internet. The internet is an environment where anyone can use any kind of language they like. There is no standard language, it is whatever language you are comfortable using. BD speakers will use AAVE all the time on the internet. On his blog, Kanye West posts photos of a beautiful models. Upon reading a post that was picture of a beautiful woman, “adubbisfinallyfamous“ had said, “she got dem boyz for a nigga and dey are natural. thats what i like about her” (Kanye West Blog, “Veronica Zemanova,” par. 10). On the internet, thsoe who see the things that you say cannot directly see you say it. You're guarded by the internet, because you are able use any kind of language you'd like without worry what someone might think.
Black Dialect is not used in composition journal writings. Though a journal article may discuss the issue of AAVE and AAVE usage, it will never be written in Black Dialect. Instead, it is written in Standard English. Here is an excerpt for a journal article written entirely in SE by Valerie Kinloch with tips that can be implemented to help students to get involved in the study of AAVE: "Invite students into a discussion of phonology, semantics, syntax, accent, and dialect"(Kinloch 105). The quote directly relates to a tip that Kinloch I believe that this is true is because SE is a more standardized form of communication with which more people can communicate with.
These are just a few examples of when and where AAVE is used.
Works Cited
Kanye Universe City. 2009. Kanye West/Mascotte Holdings, LLC. 3 March 2009.
< http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?>.
Kinloch, Valerie F. "Revisiting the Promise of "Students' Right to Their Own Language": Pedagogical Strategies." College Composition and Communication 57 (2005): 83-113.
Nembhard, Judith P. “A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English.” A Reader for Writers. U.S.A.: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008.
Black dialect is used in all forms of communication. As long as their is a mode of communication, AAVE can be used. It is used in daily conversation, as well as over the internet, and also schools. There are places where AAVE is spoken, like in home life, and there are times where it is not spoken, like at schools and work. Growing up, you learn your very first dialect. When you care younger, you use that dialect because its the only one you know, but as you grow older, you gain alternate dialects and then you begin using them at different times. But when you come home, it is easy to refute back to the time where you spoke freely in the dialect that felt most comfortable in the situation. AAVE is not the standard language in the work place. Actually, Standard English is the the standard language for more workplaces. Because of this, classrooms try to help AAVE speakers to write and speak in Standard English more fluently. Judith Nembhard gave tips on how to successfully teach AAVE speakers SE. For example, Nembhard states, "Teachers must demonstrate confidence in the students as potential learners"(Nembhard 437).
AAVE is also used on the internet. The internet is an environment where anyone can use any kind of language they like. There is no standard language, it is whatever language you are comfortable using. BD speakers will use AAVE all the time on the internet. On his blog, Kanye West posts photos of a beautiful models. Upon reading a post that was picture of a beautiful woman, “adubbisfinallyfamous“ had said, “she got dem boyz for a nigga and dey are natural. thats what i like about her” (Kanye West Blog, “Veronica Zemanova,” par. 10). On the internet, thsoe who see the things that you say cannot directly see you say it. You're guarded by the internet, because you are able use any kind of language you'd like without worry what someone might think.
Black Dialect is not used in composition journal writings. Though a journal article may discuss the issue of AAVE and AAVE usage, it will never be written in Black Dialect. Instead, it is written in Standard English. Here is an excerpt for a journal article written entirely in SE by Valerie Kinloch with tips that can be implemented to help students to get involved in the study of AAVE: "Invite students into a discussion of phonology, semantics, syntax, accent, and dialect"(Kinloch 105). The quote directly relates to a tip that Kinloch I believe that this is true is because SE is a more standardized form of communication with which more people can communicate with.
These are just a few examples of when and where AAVE is used.
Works Cited
Kanye Universe City. 2009. Kanye West/Mascotte Holdings, LLC. 3 March 2009.
< http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?>.
Kinloch, Valerie F. "Revisiting the Promise of "Students' Right to Their Own Language": Pedagogical Strategies." College Composition and Communication 57 (2005): 83-113.
Nembhard, Judith P. “A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English.” A Reader for Writers. U.S.A.: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2008.
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