How to Teach Black Students to Write in Standard English

So far in unit three we have been discussing many of the different was to teach black students how to write in Standard English and even if Black English is worth being taught. One of the readings that we have read was by Judith Nembhard. This article entitled “A Perspective on Teaching Black Dialect Speaking Students to Write Standard English” is about some of the techniques to teaching SE. Nembhard believes that black students should still learn SE even thought it is harder for them. She explains how she would teach SE to her students and why these ways work.
The ways that Nembhard says to teach SE is by using prewriting, writing and reformulation to make it so that the students understand SE. These techniques that she suggests are very similar to how the white students would be taught how to write in SE. She also made the argument that teachers also need to distinguish between oral and written speech. The teachers also need to talk about how there is a proper place and time for SE and BE. If the teachers do not make this point known then the students could get confused and use the wrong one at the wrong time. Their goal with this is so that the students have effective communication skills so that they are not limited to only speaking their only their home language. To encourage this learning of SE teachers have to have high expectations of their students and also grade fairly with the same requirements for all of the students. Nembhard gives all of these tips to help teach black students to write in SE.
Nembhard discusses scholarship of AAVE/AAL a little bit in her article. I think that she thinks that when writing a scholarly essay, article, or any piece of writing people should be using AAVE. She does not think that people should be using AAVE in academic works. Even though she says that she does not think that AAVE should be used in academic works Nembhard does not say that AAVE should not be used. She encourages it being used she just says that there is a time and place for AAVE. She doesn’t agree with AAVE being used because it is hard for some scholars to read. Nembhard is pro AAVE in the right situations but is otherwise pro SE.
I think that she does make a good argument about the use of AAVE in composition studies. I think this because Nembhard thoroughly explains why there should be a switch between AAVE and SE in writing. She says that even though AAVE is good in oral communication it should not be used in academic writings. Nembhard uses good examples and explains all of her argument really well.