In a High School class, a group of students from different cultural backgrounds is learning English as an
additional language. Among these students are Black English speakers, a dialect with its own grammar and
vocabulary. The teacher recognizes the importance of working with linguistic diversity to promote inclusive
language learning. As part of a collaborative interdisciplinary project, students were asked to work in pairs
to do research about African Literature and texts with Black English expressions and idioms. After this,
they would present their findings and discuss their impressions.
GARCÍA, O., FLORES, N., E WOODLEY, H. Transgressing monolingualism and
bilingual dualities: education. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012 (adapted).
Based on the approach presented in the case study, we can state that