Betsy Rymes' research, theoretically and methodologically informed by linguistic anthropology, is centered in educational contexts and examines how languages, social interaction, and institutions influence an individual’s educational trajectory. Her research on students and teaching in multiple contexts ranging from a Los Angeles alternative school, to rural elementary schools in Georgia, to bilingual teacher education, as well as her own experiences as a teacher all inform her new book, Classroom discourse analysis: A tool for critical reflection.
Articles
Bilingual teachers' performances of power and conflict (with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Mariana Souto-Manning), Teaching Education (2008)
This paper describes and analyzes the use of Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed (TO)...
The Relationship between Mass Media and Classroom Discourse, Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (2008)
In this paper, I illustrate the cyclical proliferation of mass-mediated communicative repertoires through small-scale mechanisms...
Books
Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Tool for Critical Reflection (2009)
This book makes techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a...
Linguistic Anthropology of Education (with Stanton Wortham) (2003)
Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how...
Conversational borderlands: Language and identity in an alternative urban high school (2001)
This groundbreaking study of an innovative charter school is the first to look closely at...
Contributions to Books
Language Socialization and the Linguistic Anthropology of Education, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Second Revised Edition (2008)
To understand how the field of Language Socialization has developed with respect to the Linguistic...