What’s unpleasant to many people isthat standard languages have a politicalcomponent: They’re always the “privi‑leged dialect”
A key Idea that standardized English has a bad connotation that it is political and has a underlying tone of being privilaged
Teachers at all levels need to knowsomething about linguistic variationand dialect. They should be humane,understanding, and encouraging. That’splacing hope in the future
The Authors Idea of how a teacher and education should be encouraged when dealing with different dialects and variation and not set on standardized English being correct and incorrect
he conclusion, then, is that weshouldn’t teach it. In a different piece inMarch 2022, The Conversation urged thatStandard English “represents an un‑acceptably ideological influence on thecurriculum.”
This is a main point if how standardized English affects school and curriculum.
Speaking of which . . . In March of lastyear, British teachers launched a seriesof attacks on Standard English. In a U.K.publication called The Conversation,
Relevancy to this argument about language and how its related to recent conversations. This was published 2023 making this fairly new
There was a lot of self-study,” JusticeThomas said. “I mean, what are yourchoices? Everything is done in StandardEnglish. . . . I had to learn English. Imean, what are my choices?”
This Is a good perspective for those who feel that they NEED to know standardized English and that there are no other choices in order to succeeded. Its a important perspective
And yet the critics have a point.Imagine being a third‑grade teacherwith a classroom of 25 children ofdiverse backgrounds. You’re leading aclass in reading, and you’re having thechildren read aloud. Do you say thatthe way one of your students says “aks”for ask is “wrong” or “incorrect”
Key passage and idea that stand out. what could be done in this situation? good counterpoint
The difficulty is how to teach StandardEnglish while not denigrating othervarieties. The book has yet to be writtenon how and why such figures as LesterHolt, Barack Obama, and Oprah Winfreyacquired their idiolects
What Idolects? and how did they acquire them?