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style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>On 7/25/07
12:19 PM, "Anthea Fraser Gupta" <A.F.Gupta@leeds.ac.uk>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT face=Arial>Can anyone explain
why all this literature refers to 'language acquisition' <BR>and not to 'the
learning of Standard English'? Using 'language acquisition <BR>makes it sound
as if children are coming to school without any language!<BR></FONT><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN class=078435916-25072007>Ron wrote "</SPAN>And
that’s exactly what the dominant US folk ideology assumes about the <BR>language
of African Americans.<SPAN
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size=2>Exactly -- is anyone challenging the terminology? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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* * *<BR>Anthea Fraser Gupta
(Dr)<BR>School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
<www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg><BR>NB: Reply to
a.f.gupta@leeds.ac.uk<BR>* *
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
[mailto:owner-lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Ronald
Kephart<BR><B>Sent:</B> 25 July 2007 17:22<BR><B>To:</B>
lgpolicy-list@ccat.sas.upenn.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Ebonics: The Subject
Still Stirs Strong Feelings<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT
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