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Pandy
Wheeler/Swords Ch. 2
Wheeler/Swords Ch. 4
Correctionist -vs- Contrastivist
"I'm Just Saying"
Constructing an Appropriate Response
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True or False:The 2 universities that participated in the study are the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Memphis.
What is false, while it was the University of Illinois, it was the Urbana campus not the Chicago campus.
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True or False, It is possible to use the Scientific Method to help in the discovery of language structure.
What is true. If you are able to find a pattern, you may find a grammatical rule.
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This technique works better than traditional techniques of teaching Standard English.
What is Code-Switching. Code switching is choosing the language variety appropriate to the specific time, place, audience, and communicative purpose.
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Teachers help students "translate, change, code-switch" from one variety to another.
What is a Contrastivist Approach
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Why she be late?
What is... Why is she usually late?
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Why did the author replace the term Ebonics with African American English?
What is the term "Ebonics" has become more divisive than unifying; it's just another way to stigmatize this variety of language.
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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.
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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
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The student should have, is suppose 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).
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People act like they don't understand her mother.
What is.... People acted like they didn't understand her mother.
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Daily Double: Which standardized test was used at select intervals to assess the 66 participants in the study?
What is TOEFL, a test that measures the ability of nonnative English speakers to use and understand the English language as it is heard, spoken, read and written in the university classroom.
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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.
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True or False: It is not recommended that teachers make mental or actual 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.
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Language follows a pattern, ranges from formal to informal, and varies by setting.
What is a Contrastivist Approach.
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The teacher wonder why he did that.
What is...The teacher wondered why he did that.
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True or False: Pandy concluded that "listening comprehension" for speakers of AAL was not an issue for her focus groups.
What is false, listening is an area in desperate need of further research (AAL students struggled greatly in this area in addition to grammar, etc.)
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True or False, Verbal corrections of language can cause students to become silent.
What is True, the risk of embarrassment can silence a child.
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Daily Double: A research proven way to teach standard English is ________ _____________.
What is Contrastive Analysis.
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Language is seen as proper or improper, good or bad.
What is an Correctionist Approach. The Contrastist approach would see language as appropriate or in appropriate, effective or ineffective in a setting (appropriate to the time, place, audience, etc.)
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But that don't make no sense.
What is...But that doesn't make any sense.
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True or False, The benefits of a Contrastive Approach were proved to be legitimate.
What is true.
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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.
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True or False: Negative attitudes towards a student's language can lead to negative expectations of the students.
What is True.. The Ann Arbor school district was found to be guilty of violating the children's rights to equal educational opportunities.
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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.
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She walk her dog everyday and never bother nobody.
What is... She walks her dog everyday and never bothers anyone.