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In order to help pre-service and current teachers understand the difficulties that some students who are standard English learners (SELs) (Redd & Webb, 2005) have when translating from their home languages (for this particular workshop, African American Language) to standard academic English (SAE), a colleague and I created a workshop that includes an activity specifically addressing this issue.
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Cunningham, J.M. (2011). Say It Right: Using Drama to Illuminate Language Differences. In: Dowdy, J.K., Kaplan, S. (eds) Teaching Drama in the Classroom. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-537-6_31
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