An allegorical argument favoring the use of both standard dialect and nonstandard dialects in English speech. (RB)

The research cited suggests separate language materials are not needed for college level black and white students. (JH)

Discusses evidence in support of combining nonnative speakers and native speakers of nonstandard English for instructional purposes. Discusses the goals and strategies for language learning these two groups have in common, arguing that the two produce many of the same linguistic forms and can interact profitably toward language acquisition. (HTH)

Concludes that as long as there are critical minds in charge of dangerous elements having unfathomed properties, such as language and politics, there is little chance that the members of the human race will wholesale themselves into slavery. (Author/RB)

Use of dialect literature increases student awareness of dialect features and reduces the occurrence of such features in student writing.

Recounts the activist history of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in working toward a more democratic valuing of language diversity by both teachers and the public. Focuses on two organizational policies of CCCC, the "Students' Right" resolution of 1974 and the "National Language Policy" of 1988,…