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Download full textWolfram, Walt – 1990
Most educational programs focusing on dialect differences are constructed to move speakers toward the standard variety of English. However, dialect study as language study in its own right introduces dialects as resources for learning about language and culture, with potential for language arts education. Systematic introduction of dialect…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Dialect Studies
Peer reviewedWolfram, Walt – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
This article addresses the educational need for knowledge about language differences and the role that school-based speech-language pathologists can play in mainstream education about language differences. A pilot language awareness program for fourth and fifth graders, which includes humanistic, scientific, and cultural objectives, is described.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Humanistic Education
