LIN 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Standard Language
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This is particularly crucial if considered with respect to the fact that a child isn"t really thinking about educational success or job opportunities. Speaking: maybe not as much as you might expect. Generally, many of the pronunciation features we"ve discussed are under the radar . Some people think teaching standard pronunciation is a goal for teachers, but in reality very little attention is devoted to this topic. Ncte says students have a right to their own language . Grammatical differences tend to take center stage for language correction. And when they do, they are evaluated very negatively. That is, when we are talking about dialect-influenced difference- vernacular speakers make as many other kinds of writing errors as everyone else. Think about the grammatical differences we"ve discussed. Think about the pronunciation differences we"ve discussed. Do we all have to overcome certain things? .