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Accent discrimination can be found everywhere in our daily lives. In fact, such behavior is so commonly accepted, so widely perc ...

though the communicative content was clear? Why was the communicative burden rejected? Discuss how standard language ideology ha ...

Notes 1 The committee issued their report, To Secure These Rights, in October During this same period, The United Nations began ...

rural values would seem to be at odds with his goals more generally. He was apparently able to deal with language as if it were ...

The Educational System 6 Fixing the Message in Stone The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very ...

teacher is both an authority figure and a role model and as such has tremendous influence in a child’s life. What follows in thi ...

a teacher who grew up speaking a stigmatized vernacular is assigned to teach a first grade class in his old neighborhood, what d ...

Figure 6.1 Percentage of 4th graders who scored less than “basic” reading skills, by race and income Source: Adapted from Fieste ...

Despite these clearly defined and articulated goals and a great many dedicated professionals who believe in the stated principle ...

teach a child a new language by scorning and ridiculing and forcibly erasing his first language.” Appropriacy arguments The Nati ...

considered unworthy or unequal, is the same.^9 To challenge the first statement in the U.S. educational system is to question th ...

All of us who speak English speak different varieties of English depending on whom we are communicating with, the circumstances ...

wording that “lifts the veil on a tradition of prescriptive bigotry towards non-standard varieties which is largely absent from ...

of appropriacy rhetoric can be found again and again across the country in arguments for the subordination of languages and lang ...

Solomon 1990) which con-solidates appropriateness and economic arguments with assimilationist rhetoric: While we must continue t ...

teachers discriminate against speakers of stigmatized varieties of English; second, it is agreed that in such an atmosphere of r ...

“I don’t want my accent to hurt my self-esteem anymore,” says a native speaker of Spanish. “I know I can get my point across in ...

10 percent of their original numbers (Stannard 1992). By the mid- nineteenth century, the Native American diaspora and the accel ...

beneath the sun. The English language as taught in America is good enough for all her people of all races. (Atkins 1887, as quot ...

But these are questions of bilingualism, it must be pointed out, and since the first boarding school for Native Americans was op ...