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Shirley Brice Heath’s work in the Carolina Piedmonts resulted in an ethnographic study covering a span of ten years from 1969 to 1978, in which she chronicled language use in three communities, Roadville, Trackton and Maintown. Her rich accounting of the literate practices of three culturally diverse groups living in close proximity to one another was groundbreaking in redefining literacy.
After typing out the stories just as they were told into the tape recorder, some teachers found that a few students would reject their oral version in written form. (Heath, 1983: 304)
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Lenters, K. (2014). Reassembling the Literacy Event in Shirley Brice Heath’s Ways with Words. In: Prinsloo, M., Stroud, C. (eds) Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity. Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137309860_8
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