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color=#0000ff size=2>"<FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>the gap
in language acquisition among students"</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=905051816-25072007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Can anyone explain why all this literature refers to
'language acquisition' and not to 'the learning of Standard English'? Using
'language acquisition makes it sound as if children are coming to school without
any language!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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* * *<BR>Anthea Fraser Gupta
(Dr)<BR>School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
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