Secondary Research

I am focusing my paper on classroom disourse and how that should look considering both primary and secondary discourses (or power and home codes). Gee argues that students should be taught how to use the primary discourse and not to pay too much attention to their secondary discourse, as we will be in a classroom environment. Delpit defendes and a students home code should never be undermined, but the power code does in fact need to be taught. I feel that there is a gap in their arguments regarding the comfort level of the students themselves, and how they feel the power and home codes should play a role in the classroom. I feel that it is the teacher's job to get to know each student and acknowlege their comfort level in the classroom as well and with code switching and establish a baseline surrounding code switching. I have not done enough outside research (like conducting my interviews) to really form a good strong opinion about this, but I have enough knowledge to have my base ideas.