Standard english

1. Standard English
and
education

2. 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.

3. 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).

4. 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?

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

6. 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

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

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

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

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