Definitions
They are varieties of language that are not classified as standard dialects. They contain socially disfavored features.
What are the vernaculars?
True or False, if you are able to find a pattern, you may find a grammatical rule.
What is true. It is possible to use the Scientific Method to help in the discovery of language structure.
True or False, with codeswitching, linguists and teachers are saying children do not need to learn standard English.
What is false. Code switching is choosing the language variety appropriate to the specific time, place, audience, and communicative purpose.
Teachers help students "translate, change, code-switch" from one variety to another.
What is a Contrastivist Approach
Why she be late?
What is... Why is she usually late?
It varies by specific speech situations.
What's a register?
True or False; When children come to school speaking a language variety different from Standard English, we must correct them.
What is False; We can use the systematic structure of that language as a resource in teaching Standard English.
True or False: Educators are encouraged to not correct but to teach students to code-switch or translate their writing to whatever language variety that's appropriate.
What is True
The student should have, is supposed to, needs to correct...
What is a Correctionist Approach. The Contrastivist Approach believes the student may code-switch (choose the language pattern to fit the setting).
People act like they don't understand her mother.
What is.... People acted like they didn't understand her mother.
It refers to the practice of switching between two or more varieties of languages.
What's codeswitching?
True or False, In AAE, possession is signaled by an apostrophe.
What is false, In AAE, possession is signaled by adjacency, the trait of one word sitting next to another.
True or False: It is not recommended that teachers make notes of the home speech patterns that occur in student speech or writing.
What is False....It is recommended so that this data can be compiled and used during a daily language mini lesson.
The teacher wonder why he did that.
What is...The teacher wondered why he did that.
This is done by looking at the structural similarities and differences of the studied languages.
What's contrastive analysis method?
True or False, Verbal corrections of language can cause students to become silent.
What is True, the risk of embarrassment can silence a child.
True or False; Teaching methods which do take vernacular dialects into account in teaching the
standard work better than those which do not.
What is true.
Language is seen as proper or improper, good or bad.
What is a Correctionist Approach. The Correctionist approach would see language as appropriate or inappropriate, effective or ineffective in a setting (appropriate to the time, place, audience, etc.)
But that don't make no sense.
What is...But that doesn't make any sense.
It is the practice of identifying the social characteristics of an individual based on auditory cues, in particular dialect and accent.
What is linguistic profiling?
True or False, A Code Switching or Contrastive Analysis Chart can be effective in helping students edit.
What is True, labeling formal language and informal home language on a graphic organizer validates both as languages.
True or False; Negative attitudes towards a student's language have no effect on student's performance at school.
What is False...Dialect prejudice reduces
teacher expectations for the
child’s abilities (Baugh, 2000).
The student is having a problem with plurals, possessives, tense, etc.
What is a Correctionist Approach? the Contrastivist Approach would consider that the student is following the patterns of home speech/informal English.
She walk her dog everyday and never bother nobody.
What is... She walks her dog everyday and never bothers anyone.