Abstract

My thesis going to be on why children have struggle with language in school and how educators are trying to help them. I came across this topic when I was reading Lisa Delpit's "Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator" compared to when I previously read Min-Zhan Lu's, "From Silence To Words: Writing as Struggle". I decided to do this topic because when comparing the two I thought Lu as a child learned Chinese and Standard English eventhough she rarely spoke it while in Delpit's the black kids were having trouble writing and reading in Standard English even though they had to speak it almost all the time.