"Because children are sensitive to how they’re perceived, stigmatising their everyday speech can be harmful" - Stan Carey
for
- Ongar Academy in Essex launched a project to discourage students from using words like ain’t, geezer, whatever, like, and literally
- head teacher, David Grant, says that students’ dialect “may not favourably reflect on them when they attend college and job interviews”
- Grant says that in Shakespeare’s anniversary year, we should “ensure the way the pupils talk gives a positive impression”
- James Sledd once wrote: “To use slang is to deny allegiance to the existing order … by refusing even the words which represent convention and signal status.”
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- Michael Rosen points out, schools have been trying this for more than 100 years to no avail
- James Sledd once wrote: “To use slang is to deny allegiance to the existing order … by refusing even the words which represent convention and signal status.”
- Sociolinguist Julia Snell argues that “to learn and develop, children must participate actively in classroom discussion; they must think out loud, answer and ask questions”
- “children may simply remain silent in order to avoid the shame of speaking ‘incorrectly’, and miss the interactions crucial to learning”
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