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2005 · San Francisco

Keeping the Gate Open: Using Home Language, Ebonics, and Basic Writer’s

Session L.1

Area: Practices of Teaching Writing · family: Teaching and pedagogy

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Isabel Baca El Paso Community College, TX → El Paso Community College two-year
Presenters Isabel Baca El Paso Community College, TX → El Paso Community College two-year Bridging Basic Writers’ Language Perspectives and Attitudes to Their Writing Performance and Experience
Presenters Xiao Wang Broward Community College, FL → Broward College two-year Accommodating Freshman Student Home Languages in Narrative Essays and Student Success
Presenters Robert Koppelman Broward Community College, FL → Broward College two-year The Effective Use of the Dialogues in The Invisible Man and their Syntactic and Semantic Features of Ebonics

Source

NCTE's program, near page 242 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Keeping the Gate Open: Using Home Language, Ebonics, and Basic Writer’s.” 2005 Convention Program, San Francisco, session L.1. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.