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"There Ain't No Doubt about It": Teaching EAL Learners to Recognize Variation and Switch/Shift between Varieties and Registers Is Crucial to Communicative Competence
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Schaefer, Vance; Warhol, Tamara – TESOL Journal, 2020
The field of English as an additional language (EAL) advocates using authentic materials and meeting the needs of students. Yet often language in the EAL classroom appears to not reflect the linguistic variation (e.g., ethnic, regional, gender, sexual orientation, generational) of English typically encountered outside of the classroom. Therefore,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Variation, Grammar