Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners

The website includes additional supporting documents. www.pbs.org/speak/ We also find the website of Center for Applied Linguistics helpful, particularly the section on Language and Culture in Society, www.cal .org/areas-of-impact/languageculture-in-society/dialects For information on the relationship between language and acculturation/assimilation, see Lingua Anglia, English Journal, Volume 104, Issue 5 (May 2015). For an even more comprehensive look at African American English, we highly recommend the NCTE book A Teacher's Introduction to African American English: What a Writing Teacher Should Know by Teresa M. Redd and Karen Schuster Webb. Tarie Lewis is a lecturer in Literacy Education at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a doctoral student at the State University of New York at Albany. Pilot Project: Reconceptualising English Language Learners' Language and Literacy Skills, Practices and Experiences.