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Group, 2004). Echoing previous investigations of this type, the report concluded that: “there is no high quality evidence ... th ...

have a professional obligation to consider what will happen to students who are taught to “paint images of life” but who must in ...

the book,” or “he couldn’t put it down.” The concept of being drawn into a book is novel for most 11-year-olds today, which mean ...

Students who use nonstandard English have a hard time mastering Standard English, and they have an even harder time with formal ...

lieve that teaching Standard English robs children of their ethnic or cultural identity because utilizing the Standard dialect c ...

icapped by competition from immigrants who, lacking education and skills, have flooded the job market. According to the Public P ...

included lessons in Standard English, even implicitly, was viewed as discrim- inatory and oppressive. One cannot overestimate th ...

have any effect on society’s attitudes toward speakers of nonstandard Eng- lish, but it will most certainly have an effect on ou ...

developed any language. Subsequent efforts to teach her English were fraught with difficulty.^11 Such cases confirm that languag ...

two-word utterances to accomplish a great deal of communication. This pattern of development is universal across all known langu ...

speech and writing typically are so established in everyday speech that they go unnoticed by all except the most astute observer ...

conscious and difficult. The reason is that the mind processes acquired knowl- edge of language in a way that is different from ...

conclusion would be incorrect, however. There are many legitimate reasons for teaching grammar. One of the more important is rel ...

mar as a tool to help students better understand themselves and others. But we don’t live in such a world, so this untraditional ...

before students are likely to gain significant insight into how they and other speakers and writers might unconsciously or delib ...

Holt’sElements of Language(Odell, Vacca, Hobbs, & Irvin, 2001) takes a sim- ilar approach, providing limited information abo ...

the word “ball.” The connection between object and name develops in a mean- ingful context; the instruction is indirect because ...

pedagogy is an altogether different matter. Too often, it is presented as a fossil- ized system that, ironically, is antithetica ...

serving and studying how people use language in a variety of settings. That is, it provides opportunities for young people to be ...

Instruct students on the nature ofstyle,the choices writers make with regard to word choice and sentence structure. Ask student ...