Essays Tagged: "Standard English"
Ebonics in Schools
the classroom (N.A., p.1).On December 18, 1996 the Oakland School Board approved a policy affirming Standard American English language development for all students. This policy covers the effectivenes ... effective practices that will enhance the opportunity for all students to successfully achieve the standards of all students. The data shows the low levels of the student performance and lack of stud ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Slang in America
pped word endings, and new dialects. Some Conservatives do not like changes because they claim that standard English is a perfect language; they do not want to corrupt it. Others simply do not like ch ... ang. No matter what diction or dialect you speak, you still have to type out an Internet message in standard Internet. There are words used specifically for the Internet, usually acronyms that are uni ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Diversity within English
variations. These variations, or dialects, can differ in lexicon, phonology, and/or syntax from the StandardLanguage that we often think of as Oecorrect' Language, although they are not necessarily le ... t we often think of as Oecorrect' Language, although they are not necessarily less proper than, say,Standard English. It depends on where, by whom, and in what situation the dialect is used as to whet ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
Schlisinger's canon vs. my high school's canon
rience, I believe this is not true. At my high school, teachers encourage students to read not only standard English literature, but also to study the great writers of other cultures.There is a great ... l, I feel as if I received this type of education. The teachers encourage students to read not only standard English literature, but also to study the great writers of other ethnicities. My high schoo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Comparing the first chapters of: Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens. Great expectations was first published in serial form in 1861 and is written in standard English with many colloquial and archaic words. As with catcher in the rye, it was first pu ... o be called pip". "Christian" is an example of an archaic word as it is not in common use but it is Standard English. Pip is 7-8 years of age while Holden is 15-16.G.E is set a long time ago while in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
About standard english and why it should or shouldnt be used
itself, creating new meanings, new ways to express, new ways to think about that very language. Non Standard English reflects that process of language becoming. This "English" is really a collection o ... nd magazines. However, Grammar books commonly describe one of the many dialects spoken in America, "Standard English." When people use terms such as "good" grammar; or when they describe a different d ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
This is a summary for Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue".
ay is chiefly about the writer's own rumination and judgment about how "broken English" compared to Standard English. Moreover it came to her sense that language not only "authorizes" individuals to p ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Ebonics and it's connotaions and effects in society.
e always been changes in the English language. This is how the language came about and evolved from standard British English to American English.During the last few years, as the world has become more ... tention of teaching their students in this primary language, in order to help the student to master standard English. The statement included this controversial sentence "?African Language Systems are ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Arthur Miller.
. He represents sanity, reason and compassion in modern plays. The choric figure usually talks more standard English, and this is true in this play, where Alfieri is much more articulate than most of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
What schools are for.
tion is possible today if we teach our students to read, write, understand the written word, master standard English, appreciate hard work, have self-respect and respect for others, seek values, and s ... of information that can be used to help each child. These observations are more important than any standardized tests. Teachers can check on student's progress in many subjects, they can display thei ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Should Ebonics be recognized as a new language
nized as a new language, because it derives mostly from English, and has features that resemble the Standard English. Before I discuss why Ebonics simply is a dialect, I would like to reassure what th ... guished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists." These definitions t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
Dialects Opposed to Languages. Text-Wrestling Essay on Gloria Anzalduas story "How to Tame a Wild Tongue?"
we are a complex, heterogenous people, we speak many languages. Some of the languages we speak are: standard English, working class and slang English, standard Spanish, standard Mexican Spanish, North ... e to be slang or another dialect, I think they could be considered another form of Spanish (besides Standard English).If I were to look up the word language, it might say "communication by word or mou ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Ebonics Controversy
way some African American children speak when they show up in American schools is so different from standard English that teachers often can't understand what they are saying. These children perform p ... ut,on December 18, 1996, the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education adopted a policy on Standard American English development for all students.This decision created great controversy and c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
"Black English: Its time will come in the right places."
s to be expected. One of the many dialects that is spoken in the United States of America is "Black English." It is an everyday spoken variety of English used mostly by African Americans. When people ... h, they often contract the words to make the sentence shorter and use slang. One can say that Black English is not grammatically correct. Even though it is not proper English, its constant and massive ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
A linguistic analyisation of Aboriginal English as a variation of Australian English.
ish. There are also various Pidgins and Creoles. Some of these variations of English are recognised standard languages that stand alone, however they are still English. One of these is Australian Engl ... d alone, however they are still English. One of these is Australian English.Australian English is a standard form of English. But what makes it so? [What gives it this status?] A standard variety of E ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies
"The Lesson" by Toni Bambara
ryone has an equal opportunity to make money. In the children's view, everyone should have an equal standard of living. Toni Bambara effectively articulates the unfairness of economic inequality throu ... the readers to the economic problems that children are facing. The children in the story speak non-standard English. Instead, they speak in AAVE, or African American Vernacular English; throughout th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Black English
within the United States to be thought of as "Sloppy language". It is almost as prevalent as standard or "Proper" English.BE/BEV has its history in slavery. When the African slaves in Ame ... ulary are a form of separation. Within many cultures adopted or assimilated into the United States, Standard English takes a back seat to their more comfortable speech. Adoption or necessity called St ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Gender In English
Gender and English When asking who is concerned more with speaking correct English, I figured ... ants I had asked all gave me the same answer: Women. Women are more concerned with speaking correct English. I do not think there is a correct and accurate way that this could be tested. What is "corr ... s going to expect from them in their language. By not having a common definition of "correct" English, I find that it is not a fair way evaluate if there is an answer to this question. However, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Gender In English
Gender and English When asking who is concerned more with speaking correct English, I figured ... ants I had asked all gave me the same answer: Women. Women are more concerned with speaking correct English. I do not think there is a correct and accurate way that this could be tested. What is "corr ... s going to expect from them in their language. By not having a common definition of "correct" English, I find that it is not a fair way evaluate if there is an answer to this question. However, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The American Cultures Archive
inion, evidence suggests that the notion that Black English is a barrier between these children and standard English is a misidentification.The fact is that Black English is not different enough from ... obstacle to speaking, reading, or writing it. Black English is simply a dialect of English, just as standard English is. Any language is actually a bundle of dialects -- varieties which all share a co ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers