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Papers by Kimberly White

Much of what is known about negative evidence has come from experimental and quasi-experimental s... more Much of what is known about negative evidence has come from experimental and quasi-experimental studies that make negative evidence available and accessible to learners by targeting emergent L2 forms and structures they have yet to master, providing responses of explicit and implicit feedback to their errors, and then tracking its usefulness in their error revision and L2 development of these forms and structures. Many of these studies were implemented under laboratory-like conditions. Others were carried out in intact classrooms with researcher intervention (see Carroll &

The goal of Working papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL) is to present works in progress by s... more The goal of Working papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL) is to present works in progress by students and professors on topics ranging from speech act analysis and classroom discourse to language planning and second language acquisition. Papers offered are generally based on research carried out for courses offered in the language in education division of the graduate school of education. WPEL is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and at universities with similar programs in educational and applied linguistics around the world. Articles in this issue include the following: "Teacher and

Parental involvement has been promoted by politicians and educators as the cure all for academic ... more Parental involvement has been promoted by politicians and educators as the cure all for academic ills in the American educational system. Programs have been funded and structured to involve all parents in schools in ways valued by middle class parents to the exclusion of language minority families, their language, and their culture. These middle class-based programs, which are founded upon a cultural deficit approach to parenting, do not provide Latino and other immigrant families with the tools they need to help their children and empower themselves. This paper describes an ethnographic investigation of home-based parent involvement as seen through the experience of a Costa Rican family in an African-American community in the northeastern United States. Using interviews, fieldnotes, and documents, this paper details a specific parental involvement effort initiated in a Latino home through a mini-grant offered by the school district. Citing literature from research on the use of fun...

Language in Society, 2011

Interviews are designed to gather propositional information communicated through reference and pr... more Interviews are designed to gather propositional information communicated through reference and predication. Some lament the fact that interviews always include interactional positioning that presupposes and sometimes creates social identities and power relationships. Interactional aspects of interview events threaten to corrupt the propositional information communicated, and it appears that these aspects need to be controlled. Interviews do often yield useful propositional information, and interviewers must guard against the sometimes-corrupting influence of interactional factors. But we argue that the interactional aspects of interview events can also be valuable data. Interview subjects sometimes position themselves in ways that reveal something about the habitual positioning that characterizes individuals or groups. We illustrate the potential value of this interactional information by describing “payday mugging” stories told by interviewees in one New Latino Diaspora town. (Inte...

Language in Society, 2011