TBiA Viewer Discussion Guide

The following chapter-based guides offer key points, discussion questions, additional resources and more to facilitate conversations and achieve the education goals:

  1. understanding and appreciating the sociocultural role of language in community life;
  2. understanding the historical roots and orderly development of African American speech;
  3. raising awareness about the systematic language patterning in African American Language, and
  4. raising awareness about language prejudice and stereotypes that have often been associated with the speech of African Americans.

Discussion Guide PDF links:

Discussion Guide Introduction

Discussion Guide Chapter 1

Discussion Guide Chapter 2

Discussion Guide Chapter 3

Discussion Guide Chapter 4

Discussion Guide Chapter 5

Discussion Guide Chapter 6

Discussion Guide Chapter 7

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