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Download full textAnderson, Edward – 1976
The value of teaching Standard English as the language of school and mainstream middle class culture is undisputed, yet Black English, as a non-standard English dialect, has great potential as an instructional tool in the composition classroom. The use of the black dialect can help expand black students' intellectual potential by de-stigmatizing…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics
