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Cushing, Ian – Language Policy, 2021
Since their introduction by the Conservative government in 2013, primary school children in England have taken a mandated grammar, punctuation and spelling assessment, which places an emphasis on decontextualised, standardised English and the identification of traditional grammatical terminology. Despite some concise criticisms from educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Grammar, Educational Policy
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Elspaß, Stephan – Language Policy, 2020
What almost all accounts of standardisation histories have in common is a focus on printed, formal or literary texts from writing elites. While Haugen identified the written form of a language as "a significant and probably crucial requirement for a standard language" (Haugen in Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966a; Haugen, in: Bright (ed)…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Language Planning, Linguistic Theory
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Tanji Reed Marshall – English Journal, 2018
This article raises the reality of English as a naturally variant and fluid language inseparable from culture. The author addresses the tensions teachers face in the classroom when they make decisions about how African American students should use their language.
Descriptors: African American Students, Language Usage, Black Dialects, Cultural Influences
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Kuehner, Alison V. – NADE Digest, 2016
Correct grammar is important for precise, accurate, academic prose, but the traditional skills-based approach to teaching grammar is not effective if the goal is good writing. The sentence-combining approach shows promise. However, sentence modeling is more likely to produce strong writing and enhance reading comprehension. Through sentence…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Skills, Punctuation, English
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Jerry F. Smith – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
This paper is meant to illuminate the possibility of how world Englishes within an international setting could become similar to the confusion encountered in the Bible record of the Tower of Babel. Presented here is the trend of world Englishes as a part of an English as an international language paradigm. The discussion then proceeds to address…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Biblical Literature
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Flynn, Jill Ewing – English Journal, 2011
Being up front with students about Standard English as "the language of power" allows them to learn valuable lessons about Standard and non-Standard English dialects. In this article, the author describes an eighth-grade language unit that helps students understand the value of dialects and standardized English. The author concludes that the…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Dialects, English, Power Structure
Turner, Kristen Hawley – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
Digitalk, the language that teenagers use when writing texts and other electronic communications, is not deficient. It is just a different language used in special contexts. However, some students have difficulty with Standard English and mistakenly use the conventions of digitalk in academic writing. By helping students to be aware of those…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Adolescents
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Turner, Kristen Hawley – English Journal, 2009
Because digital language represents such a large part of the primary discourse of today's adolescents, it is not surprising that the style of electronic communication is "seeping into their schoolwork." According to a recent study published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, in partnership with the College Board's National Commission…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Social Networks, Internet, English
Ray, Brian – Journal of Basic Writing (CUNY), 2008
This article discusses exchanges between a number of scholars during the 1990s centering on Min-Zhan Lu's controversial essay "Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing?" In some ways, "Conflict and Struggle" blazed a trail for later work in "hybrid" or "mixed" forms of academic writing while at the same time igniting…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Basic Writing, Writing (Composition), Writing Research
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Li, David C. S. – AILA Review, 2009
Despite the Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region) government's determination to implement the "mother tongue education" policy amid strong social resistance one year after the handover, English remains a prestigious language in society. The need for Putonghua (Mandarin/Standard Chinese) is also increasing following ever-expanding…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Channon, Rachel; Sayers, Edna Edith – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
The use of function words in 135 essays written by deaf college underclassmen in developmental and credit-bearing English composition classes is described and compared with Standard English (SE) versions of the same essay. If student and SE versions were the same, this was considered mastery; if the student omitted a word, this was considered…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Deafness, Punctuation, English
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Dundes, Lauren; Spence, Bill – Teaching Sociology, 2007
While students generally recognize that racism exists on an individual level, the instructor's challenge is to both elucidate patterns of discrimination and to expose their corollary: unearned and unrecognized systemic privilege of the dominant group. Unaware that their sense of entitlement advantages them at the expense of people of color, some…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Social Life, Grammar
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Schierloh, Jane McCabe – Adult Learning, 1991
In a Cleveland (Ohio) program, writing instruction for adults who speak nonstandard English is based on respect for students' spoken language as a dialect. Adapting foreign language instructional techniques such as translation, teachers avoided formal grammar terms and used extensive oral practice. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Nonstandard Dialects
Hill, K. Dara – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2008
Grounded in integrated and excerpt style (Emerson, et al., 1995), this article chronicles Mr. Lehrer, an English teacher who provides his students access to standard and nonstandard writing conventions. Student writing samples and discursive practices illustrate enhanced awareness of distinctions between nonstandard language (African American…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Suburban Schools, Working Class, Black Dialects
Tilakaratne, Sunanda – 1988
The pronoun system in Sinhalese, which is spoken in Sri Lanka, is examined based on a Sinhalese speaker's intuition and consultation with other native speakers. Spoken Sinhalese differs from the written language in having an entirely different pronoun system. Spoken Sinhalese provides a good example of social deixis because it encodes social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Interpersonal Relationship, Pronouns
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