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Shuy, Roger W. – 1970
As the field of sociolinguistics has emerged, its terminology, which like many other emerging disciplines contains many neologisms and new usages, has sometimes been called insensitive. This reaction may interfere with serious examination of the field's content. Areas of disagreement or dispute include terms used for the speech of black…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Definitions, English, Language Research
Shuy, Roger W. – Florida FL Reporter, 1971
Paper read at the National Council of Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 28, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Disadvantaged Youth, Educationally Disadvantaged, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedShuy, Roger W. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1979
Describes recent efforts that have been made to overcome barriers to the successful implementation of sociolinguistics in early education, barriers involving acceptance of research by the schools, attitude and teaching method changes by teachers, and the needs of the children themselves. (DS)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Language Ability, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedShuy, Roger W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1981
Presents the advantages of an analytic, constructivist, holistic view of language learning and training, whether native or foreign, written or oral, productive or receptive. Argues that context (setting the linguistic forms in a communicative competence framework) is the critical issue. (HOD)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition, Language Research
Download full textShuy, Roger W. – 1976
The relationship between sociolinguistics and educational concerns is examined, the focus of the paper being to discover how current developments in sociolinguistics are contributing to the field of bilingual education. Following a brief discussion of related legislation, basic questions concerning bilingual program implementation are raised,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Shuy, Roger W. – 1972
There are problems in the field of English teaching on at least three levels: research, teacher training, and the students. Research in the teaching of English must be preceded by research in English, language variation, and native language acquisition and by further work in descriptive linguistics. A significant problem in current language…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Elementary Education, English, English Education
Shuy, Roger W. – 1976
This paper describes the past assumptions about the mismatch of child language and school language, noting the distance principle, the characteristics of language interference and the various treatments that have been hypothesized. Past research involving language mismatch and reading is reviewed, and it is noted that even though the best evidence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Style, Dialects, Elementary Education
