Standard English and education Applied dialectology Is a

Standard English and education

Applied dialectology • Is a subfield of dialectology concerning the usage of the study of dialects in an educational setting or even in sociopolitical issues related to language.

Standards and english • Decline of Standard English as a symbol of declining morals in american society. • Underlying concern for the sovereignity of Standard English(influence of mass media).

Debate Questions • What precisely is American English in a given community context, and who speaks it? • What happens ot vernacular dialects when they confront the standard variety in different settings? • Can Standard English be taught effectively in an educational setting? where and how is the Standard variety best learned?

What Standard? • Levels of Standard English. • Relevance of Formal Standard. • Dialect v/s Accent. • SAE v/s NSE

Approaches to Standard English • Erradicationism: SAE must supplant vernacular varieties. • Bidialectalism: a balance between SAE and Dialect According to the situation. • Dialect Rights: an attack to the ethnocentrism and prejudice that are at the hear of dialect intolerance

Prospect For Success • Lack of success on a wide-scale. • Cultural implications. • Stigmatization. • Minor differences between standard and vernacular.

Conditions for teaching Standard English • Group-Reference factor. • Goals clearly recognized. • Nature of dialect diversity and pedagogical instruction in standar English.

• Sytematic differences between the standard and nonstandard English forms. • Current understanding of how a second dialect is acquired.

Age of acquisiton • General Assumption: during early childhood. • Recommended age: during early adulthood.