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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!UNB.CA!HUNT
  3. Message-ID: <ID4786.D921215.T074337.HUNT@UNB.CA>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mbu-l
  5. Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:43:37 AST
  6. Sender:       "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
  7. Comments:     <15DEC92.08368839.0038.MUSIC@UNB.CA>
  8. From:         Russ Hunt <HUNT@UNB.CA>
  9. Subject:      Re: Standard English
  10. In-Reply-To:  In reply to your message of TUE 15 DEC 1992 06:19:29 EST
  11. Lines: 23
  12.  
  13. Raul Huerta said:
  14. > >                                            I think that it is very
  15. > > important that these "new" students be given the tools -- that is
  16. > > to say thinking, speaking and writing skills.
  17.      and Irv Peckham responded:
  18. >                                                         I suspect
  19. > that it might be as useful to learn other dialects as other
  20. > languages.
  21.       In important ways, it seems to me other dialects ARE other
  22. languages; but we can't "give" people other languages, or other
  23. dialects -- like "standard English."  We have to arrange circumstances
  24. in which they can invent them for themselves.  But it seems to me
  25. what we really want for our students is that they learn how to
  26. learn new dialects.  As with languages, one consequence of learning
  27. a second is that it becomes easier to learn a third . . .
  28.                                     -- Russ
  29.                                 __|~_
  30. Russell A. Hunt            __|~_)_ __)_|~_   Learning and Teaching
  31. Department of English      )_ __)_|_)__ __)     Development Office
  32. St. Thomas University        |  )____) |        EMAIL: hunt@unb.ca
  33. Fredericton, New Brunswick___|____|____|____/  FAX: (506) 450-9615
  34. E3B 5G3   CANADA          \                / PHONE: (506) 452-7700
  35.                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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