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Languages and Linguistics

no_hypocrisy

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1. When I was enrolled in teacher training (masters) in 1980,

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Wed Mar 13, 2024, 03:54 AM

Mar 2024

we spent a significant amount of time on Ebonics, a/k/a "Black English". The concept was inclusion in the classroom. To correct small children especially had the effect of exclusion. You could model Standard English yourself and teach grammar accordingly without seeming to denigrate the child.

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When I was enrolled in teacher training (masters) in 1980, no_hypocrisy Mar 2024 #1