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Peer reviewedPollard, Velma – Caribbean Journal of Education, 1978
Educators must begin to take folk language seriously. Many of the situations in our classrooms are set up within unrealistic language frames because teachers are intimidated by code switching and because there is too little information about when and why people switch speech styles. (Author/WI)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Code Switching (Language), Creoles, Dialect Studies
