When langauge is changing and becoming more and more diverse, how fair is to talk about the " standards". Peope in their nature tend to understanding the things by categorising them and tring to set norm to evaluate them. It is difficult to liv ewith chaos, which I refer here to varieties of English language as I believe that people see this situation as chaotic and problematic.
John Baugh's research in the video we watched today was really interesting for me as it was a strong evidence for language bias. The language variety you use makes people to put you into categories; economic, cultural, intellectual.. In an extreeme situation even people can think that you are a lazy person just because you are using a certain variey that they catagorized their users as lazy people before.
In the video we watched, it was really sad for me to see those kids who had to carry the marginalization label that is stick to them through their adelocence. How can we judge someone who already have a language, which is variety of English, African American Vernacular in the example, as someone who is incabaple of learing English. These children were considered as nonteachable, but I think they are just victims of education. Education is for a positive change not for a negative one. if our education and approach is causing a negative change, it is when we have to judge its validity not the inability of those kids. We have to value whatever our students is bringing to the class as their capital.
I also like dthe idea that we can introduce the varieties they bring to the class as differences rather than incorrect forms. the teacher in the episode was telling the students to translate their own varieties to English, which can really be motivating instead of diminishing.
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