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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"standard English"”.
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Experiences of Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Students Assessed in Standard English
… apparent deficit in the comprehension of the English language. This deficit exists because the primary language for DHH students is American Sign Language (ASL) rather than the English language. ASL is considered and recognized as a visual language, which does not have an exact translation to …
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Teacher Attitude and Teaching the Black Dialect Student to Write Using Standard English
… attitudes, both positive and negative, toward nonstandard language use. The study also examined teacher attitude toward strategies to improve those skills. Finally, this study compared the methods selected to teach Black-dialect speakers with those selected to teach whites.</p> <p>Participants in …
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Expanding notions of 'standard' English : the South African Parliament as a case study
Bibliography: leaves 204-214.
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A Study in the Use of an Inductive-Deductive Audio-Lingual Approach to Teaching Standard English Usage
<p>If an aspect of the English teacher's job is to teach the non-standard speaker a different language (in part, at least), perhaps teachers should examine the process through which the child first learns his language. It would seem logical that this same process be followed as nearly as possible …
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The language of the sea: a corpus driven examination of the influence of Britain's maritime tradition on standard English
… maritime history has fundamentally affected the English language as spoken and written throughout the English speaking world. Maritime expressions (MEs), such as “taken aback” “batten down” and “log” are used on a daily basis, usually without any awareness on the part of the user of their source. …
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A descriptive study of certain characteristics in which the language of a class of third grade Negro children differs from standard English
… in their speech community is a variety of English that differs from standard English or what may be called "school English." These children may experience great difficulties in speaking standard English. This problem is one of social class dialect rather than regional language variation. …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1981 Belizean Constitution: National Identity in the context of History, Race, and Language
… through the features of race and written Standard English. It contends that neither race nor written Standard English are suitable and reliable constructs of national identity in Belize, as each feature perpetuates a particular interpretation of Belizean national identity as formulated in …
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Continuity/discontinuity Between Home and School Patterns of Communication
… and forth between the dialect spoken at home and standard English being required in the school; (b) determine to what extent, if at all, standard English and dialect use hinder or advance effective teaching/learning outcomes; (c) determine what attitudes parents, teachers, and students exhibit …
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Talkin' Proper: The Challenges Facing Students From Non-Traditional Pathways On Initial Teacher Training Courses
… a background of government policy on raising standards and of broadening access to Higher Education and recruitment of teachers in the new millennium, this thesis explores the implications of government policy on promoting standard English for a group of student teachers from non-traditional …
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The Question of the 'Standardisation' of Written English in the Fifteenth Century
… held assumption found in the histories of the English language, namely, that the English Chancery was the source and the cause of the standardisation of the English language which occurred in the fifteenth century. The thesis considers how the standardisation of the English language is …
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The relationship between texting and language development amongst intermediate phase learners in uThungulu District
… use texting language in the written forms of English, determine if learners are able to write in the standard form of English, and ascertain if texting affects spelling.The target population were learners in the Intermediate Phase, which is learners from Grade 4 up to Grade 6. There were 213 …
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A Corpus-based Approach to Determining Standard American English
… by usage experts to determine what is correct standard written American English. Unfortunately, though, experts often disagree about what is correct and what is incorrect, and this disagreement can create problems with validity when people create and assess instruction about usage. One way to …
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A Dynamic Examination of the Disparity in African-American College Enrollment
… argue the disparity results from using biased standardized tests against speakers of different language varieties. Due to these differences, students perform poorly on tests using only Standard English. Compounding this problem, speakers of nonstandard language varieties often come from low …
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A variationist multilocality study of unstressed vowels and verbal -s marking in the peripheral dialect of east Suffolk
… tense verb forms (e.g. he run, she go, c.f. Standard English he runs and she goes), shows evidence of being at a late stage of change. Across the three locations, younger speakers are almost categorical in their use of the Standard English-like -s marking of third singular subjects, while …
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Self-Concept Assessment of Linguistically Diverse Students
… setting, than those students who are from "standard" English linguistic backgrounds. This study took into account the students' linguistic backgrounds; the language most frequently used in the home, whether it is "standard" English, Black English, Spanish, or any other language. It was the …
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A study of the semantic characteristics of the modal auxiliaries may and might in Scots
Scots has developed differently from Standard English. The use of modal auxiliaries in Present-Day Scots seems to be different from Present-Day Standard English. In this paper the semantics of MAY and MIGHT in Scots are studied. Several studies of Scots, for instance Miller (2003) and Kirk (1987), …
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Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English
This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature …
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The role of perception in phonotactic constraints : evidence from Trinidad English
… focus on coda cluster simplification in Trinidad English. The first claim of this thesis is that C2 deletion is triggered when VC 1 C2# is not sufficiently distinguished perceptually from VC 1 #, by at least one relevant perceptual dimension. The relevant properties that sufficiently distinguish …
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