It may be better to regard what are now considered dialects, such as Caribbean Creole, as languages related to English rather than forms of English. This altered context would recognize cultural identity and shift programing emphasis from literacy to English for speakers of other languages. (SK)

Formality as a style may be defined as language which reflects or "keynotes" the degree of familiarity between participants in a discourse. Working from this assumption, this paper attempts to answer the question, "How is formality best described?" Results of a series of tests indicate that informants' labels (with the…

The junior high and senior high school English teacher should not judge dialect speakers as inferior to speakers of standard English but should rather be concerned with teaching his students the power and use of dialects. At the same time, he should capitalize on the students' dialect skills to teach them standard English skills. Teaching…