Ebonics: The Subject Still Stirs Strong Feelings

[L Pierce]

Maybe it is a outworking of a desire to maintain
cultural distinction, natural or synthetic, either by
people within the culture or outside of it. the
children certainly do come to school with English
language knowledge.

Lisa
 
--- Anthea Fraser Gupta <A.F.Gupta at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> "the gap in language acquisition among students"
>  
> 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!
>  
> Anthea
> 
> 
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> Anthea Fraser Gupta (Dr)
> School of English, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
> <www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/afg>
> NB: Reply to a.f.gupta at leeds.ac.uk
> *     *     *     *     *
> 
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