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Peer reviewedBaxter, Milton – College English, 1976
Discusses some ramifications of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's resolution on "Students' Right to Their Own Language." (DD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Language Variation
Download full textDaniels, Harvey A.; And Others – 1975
Bidialectal approaches to American public school teaching presume a relativistic view of language on the part of teachers, a requirement which has received little scrutiny since bidialectalism has become a predominant approach to divergent language in school settings. Evidence drawn from documents of the American teaching profession over the past…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Dialects, Educational Attitudes, Language Attitudes
Charrow, Veda R.; Crandall, Jo Ann – 1978
The simplification of legal language is required by President Carter's Executive Order requiring "clear and simple English" in government regulations. A major problem in the simplification process is the absence of any adequate description or classification of legal language. This paper defines some specific features of legal language,…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Standardization
Wong, Irene F. H. – 1978
In the last 15 years or so, Malaysian English has begun to come into its own as a dialect peculiar to its own region and yet intelligible on the whole to English speakers everywhere. There is evidence that English is undergoing a transitional stage in Malaysia; use of English is progressively reduced as use of Bahasa Malaysia is increased. The…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialect Studies, Educational Policy, English for Special Purposes
