Teaching Standard English Usage: A Dialect-Based Approach.

Schierloh, Jane McCabe

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Publication Date: 1991

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Teaching Standard English Usage: A Dialect-Based Approach.

Schierloh, Jane McCabe

Adult Learning, v2 n5 p20-22 Feb 1991

In a Cleveland (Ohio) program, writing instruction for adults who speak nonstandard English is based on respect for students' spoken language as a dialect. Adapting foreign language instructional techniques such as translation, teachers avoided formal grammar terms and used extensive oral practice. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, English Instruction, Grammar, Nonstandard Dialects, Second Language Instruction, Standard Spoken Usage, Translation, Writing Instruction

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Ohio (Cleveland)

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