Is It Really English for Everyone?.

Bartoli, Jill Sunday

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ERIC Number: EJ327892

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Is It Really English for Everyone?

Bartoli, Jill Sunday

Language Arts, v63 n1 p12-22 Jan 1986

Discusses how the socioeconomic "caste system" operates to differentiate education, and addresses questions concerning the definition of mainstream competence and the labeling of students as unfit or incompetent. Discusses the shortcomings of the three solutions for language incompetence. (HTH)

Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, English, English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Handicaps, Language Skills, Language Usage, Mainstreaming, Social Dialects, Socioeconomic Background, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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