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Audre Lorde: contextualizing strategies.(English education)
Abstract
Providing contextual background is vital when teaching reading (and writing) to normative speakers of English. Moreover, contextualizing activities themselves are a rich source of creative reading and writing assignments, and they are especially useful for linking offline and online learning. Therefore, this paper presents and discusses contextualizing activities based on Audre Lorde's "That Summer I Left Childhood Was White." It demonstrates how a focus on the Emmett Till case, Jim Crow laws, and the question of silence can be pedagogically effective in the ESL classroom.
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