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Catran, Jack – 1985
The transcript of and guide to a two-cassette course designed to assist speakers of Black English in erasure of their accents includes an introduction on Black and Standard English usage, an explanation of the system used in this course, the pronunciation symbols used, and an explanation of how to change or eliminate trouble spots. The course is…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Consonants, Diacritical Marking, Dialects
Appalachian Dialects in the College Classroom: Linguistic Diversity and Sensitivity in the Classroom
Download full textMitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction
