The statement by the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication affirming the student's right to his own language--his dialect--poses a challenge deserving further research, especially as it concerns the classroom situation. Black English, a dialect with linguistic principles whose roots can be traced to West Africa, has not been accepted by most educators although it has been shown to bee a logical mode of expression. The effect of focusing standard English onto students accustomed to using black English has been negligible. Moreover, the proposal that children be taught to read and write in their own dialects and then be allowed to switch to standard English after they have grasped the principle of correspondence between written letters and spoken language will not preserve our heritage of dialects. Implicit in the right to language is the responsibility for communicability, but until more is written and understood in black English, many questions remain unanswered concerning its communicability. (JM)