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Devet, Bonnie – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1996
Describes an assignment designed to dispel prospective English teachers' dichotomous ideas about language ("right" or "wrong"); gain a sense that more than one dialect could be accepted; and understand that the variations from the handbook rules ("errors") might even be rhetorically based. (TB)
Descriptors: English Teacher Education, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns