Dialect

In many classrooms across America today, race and ethnicity are very much on the table. Teachers dream of seeing their students discuss difference in a constructive way. Some educators actively encourage their classes to get outside their comfort zones and confront the country’s racial history, but I ask myself after reading McIntosh’s Interactive Phases of Curricular and Personal Re-Vision Model, how much was race and ethnicity practice in the classroom long ago when I was in elementary. I can…

its dreadful dialect and racist situations (the “n”word), the ending that represents substandard…

sentences” (Grosjean, 2010, p. 52). Grosjean made a very interesting point in mentioning how many individuals or bilinguals themselves would criticize this form of speech. I agree with her reference on how the thought of speaking in this form of dialect would be seen as negative and lazy because you want to be efficient with the language you are trying to learn. When you switch from…

It helps me build relationships with others and communicate within the society . The ability to code switching during conversation is important . There is certain type of dialect that is needed when communicating with different age groups and settings. Whether at home, work, church, and out in the community. “How has my language constructed the world in which I live in?” After learning the basics of language it gave me the…

classmates had a fairly similar reaction when reading Mark Twain’s literary great, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Although, I had a totally different reaction. The reason for classmates’ disdain of this novel was due to Mark Twain’s usage of dialects. They had a really hard time understanding what was happening, especially when the characters “spoke.” My friends have even told me they downright stopped reading or hated the novel even more when the character, Jim the slave, makes his grand…

therefore should be regarded as Englishes (Gee, 2011). Each child experiences the same development process of communication although it may take place under different circumstances, like in a different variation of English, different accent or different dialect. Different registers are used when the individual is presented in a variety of situations that match the formality that arises. For example, communication from parent to child would be respectful, authoritative and nurturing whilst it…

a family of Polynesian, which is a sub-family of Austronesian languages. There are two official languages spoken in Hawaii: (1) Hawaiian; (2) English. Then we have Hawaiian Creole English (HCE), often known as “Pidgin” in Hawaii. This is not any dialect of Hawaiian or English, but combines aspects of both – hence making it a “creole” language. As last estimated of its native speakers in 2001, was of about 0.1% - making it an endangered species of language. It was first reported in 1778 as a…

Talked dialect is a blessing given to humanity from God; it is utilized for both terrible and great. The limit it has offered us to flourish as an animal groups all through creating sounds from the vocal rope is bewildering. Dialect is intense, how two words can involve together to depict a significant story. It's effective on the grounds that it has the ability to begin wars, or the ability to bond two individuals together. It's capable in light of the fact that it can venture one's voice to…

is not novel to speakers of the dialect. Ms. Guerra, a San Francisco native who speaks Chicano English, says she feels like people take her less seriously, especially because her “vocabulary and grammar is not good to begin with.” Note that Guerra may think that her vocabulary and grammar is “not good” because she compares to to the standard and what she was taught in school, and does not validate the correctness of her own dialect. Rather than seeing it as a dialect, she thinks she is just not…

who are. But, I can relate to Amy Tan when she said that she grew up using different “Englishes”. I come from an Island where it was first inherited by the Spaniards then the French and later the English conquered. My forefathers made or created a dialect called Patois which is a mixture of the three languages and that is how they all communicated and this language was brought down to new generations, this language was not taught in schools but this is the language we used to communicate with…