Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms

Devereaux, Michelle D.

doi:10.4324/9780203581261

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“…The value of such study at the early levels has been widely discussed and demonstrated (Adger, Wolfram, & Christian 2007, Baugh 2000, Baugh & Alim 2006, Charity Hudley & Mallinson 2010, Devereaux 2014, Devereaux & Palmer 2018, Reaser & Wolfram 2007, Rickford & Finegan 2004, Smitherman 2000. Knowledge of dialect and language variation and associated societally determined attitudes is crucial for students in many different fields, following a wide variety of career and life trajectories.…”

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The AP Linguistics initiative

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Denham²,

Lobeck³

2019

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In May 2016, the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America approved formation of an ad hoc AP Linguistics Committee (APLC) to study the creation of an Advanced Placement Linguistics course and examination for US high schools. In January 2017, the APLC convened and voted to proceed with the drafting of a formal AP Linguistics proposal to the College Board and to take whatever preparatory steps were required in that process. In this paper we sketch the AP Linguistics initiative, describing the potential benefits of linguistics for American high schools and their students, the attractions of high school linguistics for the field of Linguistics itself, the motivations for an AP Linguistics course in this context, the formal requirements of an AP Linguistics proposal to the College Board, and the steps being taken to meet those requirements.*

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