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Class for June 17,
2008
1) Turn in final
papers – short discussion
2) Discuss John Gatto’s book
Class for June 12,
2008
1) Evaluations
2) Housekeeeping
3) Cursing
4) Your papers
5) Perception of
errors
6) Treatment of
errors
7) Segment on
Speaking proper
8) Introduce topic
for next time
Homework
Post to webct
Read John Gatto
Finish paper
Class for June 10,
2008
1) Four housekeeping details
2) Wheeler and
Swords
3) L2 Acquisition and ESOL
4) Homework
- work
on short paper
- finish
Wheeler and Swords
- respond
to post
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Dialects
Readings
Standard English: What it
isn't
The Truth about Change
What is Correct Language?
The Midwest Accent
Language in its Social
Setting
Are American Dialects
Fading?
Americans are ruining the
Language
They Speak Bad English Down
South
“PC” Example
NPR Report on Accent
Reduction
New Gingrich and
“Ghetto English”
Searching for Apartment?
NPR Report on Marginal
Dialects
A black actress discusses
accent
Who talks more? men or women?
Technology and English
Other Websites
Marketing
and Translation Problems
Merger of / i / and / e /
Some
features of American southern English
R-deletion in
New York City
American
Tongues
NBC Report on
"Bad" English
A-prefixing
Soda
pop question
FDR speech
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African-American English
Readings
When
Worlds Collide
Ebony+Phonics
Springville, Texas
Harlem
Renaissance
News Article with
Jesse Jackson's opinion
Other Websites
A Wesite
devoted to AAVE
Features
of AAVE
Concise Features
of AAVE
Quote from Bill
Cosby
Original
Oakland Resolution
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