Wed+1-18

Guiding Questions:

 * What is language?**
 * How do we come to see forms of communication as language?**
 * Why do we evaluate people based on their language?**

**Before class:**

1.) Read the following articles.



If you have time, please skim this online article as well. [|Language Myth]


 * In Class: **

Watch [] [] [|Do you speak American?]

What is standard English? What are non-standard Englishes? Do you speak Englishes that may be considered non-standard? When and where do you speak them?

Read the following quote:

Addressing learning styles as traits also seems to be a common way to prepare teachers to make the link to diversity (Guild,1994; Matthews, 1991). Clearly, teaching to a difference that can be labeled (e.g., learning modalities) sounds appealing to teachers who have limited resources, support, or training to meet the challenges of new student populations. An observation by one high school English as a second language teacher illustrates the application of a common perception reported in our studies of English-language learners:

I think it’s also very important to include. . . multimedia techniques because we have a group now in school that is very diverse in their learning strategies. You know most are visual language learners, so if you give them something they can see or touch, they are tactile. That gets to them; they can understand that.

Create a T-Chart that contrasts culture and repertoires of practice. Include the problems that Gutierrez describes.