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Peer reviewedSmitherman, Geneva – English Journal, 1973
Discusses (1) American class anxiety and racism as reflected in the linguistic purist tradition; (2) the didialectalism of contemporary Black Idiom speakers; (3) the need for accurate comprehensive descriptions of Black Idiom; and (4) the need for teachers to teach communication skills to Black students. (MM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Communication Skills, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Usage
Download full textHernandez, Luis F. – 1967
A curriculum guide was prepared for the teaching of standard spoken English in the Los Angeles junior high schools. This guide focuses specifically on the language handicaps of Mexican-American students. The lessons were designed for use with accompanying tapes and filmstrips. (See also UD 007702 for parallel program to help Negro students). (NH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Filmstrips, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students
SKINNER, VINCENT P. – 1967
IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT APPALACHIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT ILLITERATES. THEY HAVE A VERY SOPHISTICATED LANGUAGE WITH WHICH THEY COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. THEIR LANGUAGE SYSTEM, HOWEVER, IS NOT LIKE THE STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH, BUT IS LEARNED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM ORAL TRADITION AND HAS CHANGED VERY LITTLE FOR…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Illiteracy, Language Patterns
Loban, Walter – 1966
Over a 10-year period, the oral language development of 338 pupils was studied from kindergarten through grade 9 to establish the most crucial and frequent oral language difficulties. Recorded samples of oral English from each subject were segmented by oral intonation patterns and syntactic units, and were analyzed yearly in terms of 21 oral…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language
Loban, Walter – 1966
Over a 10-year period, the oral language development of 338 pupils was studied from kindergarten through grade 9 to establish the most crucial and frequent oral language difficulties. Recorded samples of oral English from each subject were segmented by oral intonation patterns and syntactic units, and were analyzed yearly in terms of 21 oral…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language
Wilson, Marilyn – 1967
A curriculum guide was prepared for the teaching of standard oral English in the Los Angeles junior high schools. This guide focuses particularly on the teaching of standard English to Negro students using a nonstandard dialect. The lessons were designed for use with accompanying tapes and filmstrips. (See also UD 007703 for parallel program to…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Curriculum Guides, Filmstrips
Eskey, David E. – 1973
This paper discusses the controversy over nonstandard dialects as opposed to the standard language in the teaching of English and makes a case for maintaining a commitment to Standard English. The primary function of standard English is to provide a means by which members of English-speaking society can communicate with each other. It is…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Discrimination, Educational Strategies, English
