Abstract

Multicultural Perspectives, 2(1), 35–40 Copyright © 2000 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. ent. For a speaker to interact mean- spite the fact that the teacher in Textbooks ingfully with his or her audience, he Bartolome’s study is a native or she must rely on cultural cues to speaker of the English language, generate meanings and convey a she was not immune from what The Misteaching of Academic message to the audience. Bartolome calls The Misteaching of Discourses: The Politics of Lan- Also, Bartolome maintains that Academic Discourses. In fact, her guage in the Classroom. Lilia I. Bartolome, Boulder, CO: West- the use of innocuous terms such as teaching was plagued with myriad view, 1998, 135 pages, $60.00 de-contextualized and disembedded pedagogical flaws, such as (hardcover). ISBN 0–8133–3144–7. language obfuscates the fact that the miscommunication and bad class- “dominant ideology often devalues room management. Victor I. Ikpia language varieties that do not con- Finally, it could be said that Department of Curriculum form to the prescribed rules of aca- Bartolome’s work is one of the most and Instruction demic discourse” (p. 4). To buttress remarkable attempts to meliorate the New Mexico State University, her argument, she cites the use of