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.