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Having the insight as a former student and a present educator, Linda Christensen wrote about her views on the way English is taught to students in her essay“Teaching Standard English: Whose Standard?” Christensen

In his short essay, Why Good English Is Good for You, John Simon utilizes several rhetorical devices in order to convey the idea of the resurrection of the dying English language. In order to gain the support needed, Simon aims his essay towards the average, educated, young adult, Americans, because they are still at the age of where they can learn and cultivate their minds for the better, while also being old enough to fully understand the ramifications of becoming better educated. Through the use of rhetorical questions, similes, pathos, appeals to history and authority, repetition, and many other devices, John Simon is successful in portraying his arguments of why the proper English language must be resurrected. In order to prove his argument,

In “Theme for English B” education has been obtained yet the speaker still faces discrimination. The speaker takes his studies very seriously, especially since

Adam Gopnik holds a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University and continued graduate work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Gopnik is a writer for the New Yorker and in his article, “Why Teach English?” (2013), he warns of the steady declining enrolment in University English majors since the 1970’s. Gopnik points out that there is a growing consensus that the study of English is vanishing from American educational institutions in the similar way Latin did. He is not persuaded by the two popular beliefs in defence of why English majors exist: English majors make individuals better and English majors make societies better. Gopnik draws a conclusion that studying English is rewarding and not a waste of time, due to intrinsic pleasure

Simon states “some people are pleased to call linguistic evolution was almost always a matter of ignorance prevailing over knowledge” (209). This statement shows the opposing view of the liberal -linguist. On the other hand, the other group of people the opposition of the liberal-linguist mentioned by Simon believe that “there is such thing as Standard English” (208). This makes the works of this article balanced and truthful. As a conservative, Simon wants individuals to preserve the English language and not just go with any fad that may come upon us. Henceforth, Simon wants us to teach ourselves and he stresses training yourself. Though Simon presents favoritism toward what he describes as the minority or the conservatives. “we are here… to arrest unnecessary change” (209). He accurately reveals the two viewpoints regarding good English usage.

The demonstrations of people sound great in textbooks, yet infrequently appear to be so true. That is not his deficiency, however, that is no reason for minimizing and trying to quiet him for what he did and say. America's exceptional strength is the result of an auxiliary imperviousness to essential change and its history is interlaced with prejudice that was once plainly obvious however now works with winks and gestures that few in force will battle. To restrict bigotry is upright. To deny its presence, regardless of the reason, is

The classes that have been observed and that will be analyzed in this essay are the English Honors and AP English courses which took place at Cerritos High School during the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016. This analysis will focus on the instructor of said classes, David Hind, and on their curriculum, specifically on how the assessment of the students’ learning took place.

Reading chapter six from Beyond Grammar Language, Power, and the Classroom, written by Mary R. Harmon and Marilyn J. Wilson has open my eyes not to base peoples’ language off from standard American English because everyone has a different dialect depending on their culture. I am going to be more mindful of peoples’ dialect, and not be quick to judge a person based on their language because a person's language is what makes that individual unique. Instead, I am going to embrace the different dialects and use them as an advantage when teaching a classroom

It’s okay to fight the white man in order to claim what belongs to you. You don’t linger when you are trying to accomplish what is due to you in life. You white and fight together. He states if something doesn’t happen soon, we are going to be forced into doing something legal the ballot or bullet. You don’t rely upon your enemy for a job because it was your enemy that kidnapped and brought you to America. He also said that the government’s has failed blacks and we are suffering political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation, all of them from the stand tall and white in America so they could be successful in accomplishing some of their goals and

“Hi, Nick! This is Shepard with the University of Oklahoma and I was just giving you a call—I wanted to first congratulate you. We’re going to be sending you a contract offer of admissions.” (Shepard). It was this voicemail that started my journey here at the University of Oklahoma. When I arrived at the University of Oklahoma, I was unsure what to expect in an academic setting. However, after experiencing several discussion sections of varying classes, I developed a better understanding of how language played a role in academics. Although I knew that my social language would be different in an academic setting as compared to a social setting, it was not until I took English composition that I was fully able to understand the significance of that language plays in education. Because of my experiences at the University of Oklahoma, I now comprehend that, in an academic setting, patience, professionalism, and interaction are all necessary forms of language that must be used in order to fully grasp elements of education that are not written inside of textbooks.

Simon expands upon this ideal by convincing his audience that using good English will have extreme benefits for an individual. He states that these benefits are, “ Your sense of discipline and memory. Discipline because language is with us always, as nothing else is: it follows us as much as, in the old morality play, Good Deeds followed Everyman, all the way to the grave; and, if the language is written, even beyond.” He wants the audience to believe that good English presents many possibilities and eliminates conflict. The only problem that arises within this ideal, is the education system’s take on teaching English.

This program is designed for the unit of HSC English Standard which aims to develop students understanding, competency and appreciation of the English language. In studying this unit, students will be provided with the opportunity to explore various textual forms so as to become reflective, insightful and effective communicators in an ever-changing society. It is becoming apparent that our classes are now more culturally diverse, thus our teaching practices should reflect those changes. The demographics of this English class is made of up 24 male students of mixed academic abilities from multicultural backgrounds. It is single-sex public system school, located in Western Sydney. This has influenced the selection of texts, supplementary content

Demonstrate the breadth of your understanding of the diversity of English across time, geography, culture and class and explain why it is essential for teachers in the 21st Century to be aware of ‘multi-literacies’ and language variation.

Based on Dara’s learning background and her motivation to join this English course (please refer to Part 1: Learner Profile), I am going to focus on the error of the use of articles and the wrong pronunciation of /θ/.

His fifth claim is that different forms of speech do not equate to differing levels of achievement in school. As a sixth claim, he argues that ethnographic assumptions offered by Deutsch, Bereiter, Engelmann are wrong. His final claim, is that training a child to learn the logical manner of Standard English doesn’t guarantee that he’ll succeed. Nonstandard English isn’t the problem to learning; it’s the ignorance of the language and the belief that it’s inferior.