Publications

Publication details [#33133]

Higgins, Christina M., Mary M. Thompson and Rebecca V. Roeder. 2003. In Search of a Profound Answer: Mainstream Scripts and the Marginalization of Advanced-Track Urban Students. Linguistics and Education 14 (2) : 195–220.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | language and culture | language dominance

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This microethnographic study investigates the relationship between non-mainstream urban students' interaction with their mainstream teachers in advanced-track classrooms and students' ability to engage in the dominant linguistic and cultural classroom codes.