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Diversity Resources

A Sample of Helpful Diversity Academic Readings:

The following readings cover a wide variety of topics related to diversity and multicultural education. Most of them have been published in professional journals in the U.S., but a few are published in other countries. Those with underlined titles are books. Some deal with teacher education, while others are more practical and relate to classroom practice.

The list is presented alphabetically by author's last name.

• Cheng, C.C (1986) Contributions in Chinese language reform. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 59, 87-96.
• Custodio, B., & Sutton, M.J. (1998). Literature-based ESL for secondary school students TESOL Journal, 7(5), 19-23.
• De la luz Reyes, M. & Halcon, J. (1988). Racism in academia: The old wolf revisited Harvard Educational Review, 58(3), 299-314.
• Escamilla, K., Mahon, E., Riley-Bernal, H., & Rutledge, D. (2003). High stakes testing, Latinos, and English language learners: Lessons from Colorado. Bilingual Research Journal, 27(1), 25-49.
• Garcia, G. E. (1992) Ethnography and classroom communication: Taking an "emic" perspective Topics in Language Disorders, 12, 54-66.
• Gay, G. (1985). Implications of selected models of ethnic identify development for educators The Journal of Negro Education, 54(1), 43-55.
• Gottleib, M. (1995). Nurturing student learning through portfolios TESOL Journal, 5 (1), 12-14.
• Harklau, L. (1994). ESL versus mainstream classes: Contrasting L2 environments TESOL Quarterly, 28(2), 241-272.
• Harper, C., & Platt, E. (1998). Full inclusion for secondary school ESOL students: Some concerns from Florida TESOL Journal, 7(5), 30-36.
• Hornberger, N.H. (1987) Bilingual education success, but policy failure Language in Society, 16(2), 205-226.
• Hudelson, S. (1987) The role of native language literacy in the education of language minority children Language Arts, 64 827-841.
• Ladson-Billings, G. (2005) Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education. New York, New York: Teachers College Columbia University Press
• Markee, N (1997). Second Language acquisition research: A resource for changing teachers' professional cultures? Modern Language Journal, 81(1), 80-93.
• Meyer, L. (Ed.). (2000). Barriers to meaningful instruction for English learners. Theory into Practice, 39(4), 228-236.
• Moran, M.J. (1993). Final consonant deletion in African American children speaking Black English: A Closer look. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 24, 161-166.
• Nara, H. & Noda, M. (2003). Acts of reading: Exploring connections in pedagogy of Japanese. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.
• Norton, B. (1997) Language, identity, and the ownership of English TESOL Quarterly, 31(3), 409-429.
• Pena, E., & Quinn, R. (1997). Task familiarity: Effects on the test performance of Puerto Rican and African American children Language, speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 28, 323-332.
• Pennington, M.C. (1995). The teacher change cycle TESOL Quarterly, 29 (4), 705-731.
• Planos, R., Zayas, L., & Busch-Rossnagel, N. (1995). Acculturation and teaching of Dominican and Puerto Rican mothers Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 17, 225-236.
• Phillipson, R., & Skutnab-Kangas, T. (1995). Linguistic rights and wrong. Applied Linguistics, 16, 483-504
• Smitherman, G. (1994). Black talk: Words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
• Smitherman, G. (1998). "Dat teacher be hollin at us"-What is Ebonics? TESOL Quarterly, 32(1), 139-143.
• Spolsky, B. (2003). Religion as a site of language contact Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 23, 81-94.
• Tanenbaum, H., & Leaper, C. (1997). Mothers' and fathers' questions to their children in Mexican-descent families: Moderators of cognitive demand during play. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 19, 318-332.
• Verplaetse, L-S. (1998). How content teachers interact with English language learners TESOL Journal, 7(5), 24-28.
• Walker, G. & McGinnis, S. (1995). Learning less commonly taught languages: An agreement on bases for the training of teachers. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Foreign Language Center (Hagardy Hall).
• Zakaria, F. (2005, May 9). Does the future belong to China? Newsweek, 145(19), 28-47.
• Zhao, Y. (1996). Language learning on the World Wide Web: Toward a framework of network based CALL, Calico Journal, 14(1), 37-51.

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