Language plea by Sacred Heart Primary School: Have they undervalued the concept of context? (eBook, PDF) - Mitchell, Kylie
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Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: [...] The transcript above represents two children having a minor argument before school. We can immediately see that the children have used their local Teeside accent and dialect. Of course, we can all understand the language used by the children in this context. But do we judge them and assume they are receiving a poor education simply because their pronunciation is different to the version that the Queen, politicians and national newsreaders use? Can we assume they…mehr

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Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: [...] The transcript above represents two children having a minor argument before school. We can immediately see that the children have used their local Teeside accent and dialect. Of course, we can all understand the language used by the children in this context. But do we judge them and assume they are receiving a poor education simply because their pronunciation is different to the version that the Queen, politicians and national newsreaders use? Can we assume they are receiving a poor education from the fact that both children responded to their mother with “nowt” as opposed to “nothing?”