This work seeks to fill important gaps existing in the study of Peninsular Arabic, especially that of the United Arab Emirates. It presents an explicit outline of the structure of Gulf Arabic, based on the dialect of Abu Dhabi. It is intended for students and teachers of Gulf Arabic, for linguists and dialectologists, and for other individuals who…

Links between language and identity are so strong that attempts to correct nonstandard speech are likely to be interpreted by West Indian children as criticism or rejection. A far more constructive approach would be to acknowledge and accept Creole in the classroom. (Author)

This paper discusses why different classroom techniques are needed in composition classes for teaching English to foreign speakers and to non-standard English speakers. Current pedagogical methods for teaching and testing composition for the two kinds of speakers are reviewed. Sentence combining, discourse analysis, and cloze testing are…

Because community college students have such diverse backgrounds, their English teachers must recognize, understand, and accept various dialects and simultaneously teach social values as they help students learn standard English. (Author/DC)

Reports on a study unit designed by a group of high school English teachers in the rural deep South, using Broadcast English to prepare students for job interviews. Emphasizes Broadcast English as a register to be used in certain speech situations (rather than an attempt to "fix" students' language). (SR)

Argues that educators need to be familiar with US educational history in order to distinguish between what is merely recent and what is genuinely new in English instruction. (MM)

This article deals with the question of how American teachers' language attitudes affect the implementation of bidialectal language programs. It places this question in historical perspective by focussing on past controversies involving the evolution of American teachers' attitudes towards children's language. (POP)

This book is a collection of conference proceedings, papers, comments, and other documents that was compiled as a response to the national controversy that erupted in the aftermath of the resolution on Ebonics by the Oakland Unified School District in late 1996. That resolution affirmed the need to incorporate an explicit focus on Ebonics in…

Article investigated the hypothesis that Caucasian subjects supply significantly more standard English, and Negro subjects supply significantly more predictable nonstandard English endings to present, plural, possessive, and time extension words, and that differences are obtained regardless of the standard or nonstandard English mode of…

Discusses (1) American class anxiety and racism as reflected in the linguistic purist tradition; (2) the didialectalism of contemporary Black Idiom speakers; (3) the need for accurate comprehensive descriptions of Black Idiom; and (4) the need for teachers to teach communication skills to Black students. (MM)

The author suggests that the time a teacher spends in a classroom is an observable way of knowing how the ideals of the discipline are being implemented. The article attempts to develop an alternative position to the one characterized by four traditions: lecture; traditional literature study; correctness; and one path for all English programs.…

Author offers suggestions for teaching standard English as an alternate dialect. (MB)

Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, February 28, 1972, in Washington, D.C. (VM)