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Teaching of NonregionalAmerican EnglishThe teaching of a nonregional American English dialect to the disadvantaged child offers the promise of integration at the national level, according to Dr* Joey L« Dillard, visiting lecturer in the language and behavior programs of Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences.Writing in the spring issue of Florida Foreign Language Reporter, devoted to as anthology of articles on the educational problems of the disadvantaged, Dr. Dillard says, Clearly, the Negro does not have all the image problems that are often attributed to him—at least in language. And even more clearly, he does not aspire to sound like 'Mr, Charlie'.”According to Dr. Dillard, former director of the Urban Language Study in Washington, D. C, the Consensus Standard dialect of American English would be most useful for the teaching of the disadvantaged. The dialect,” he said, is unmarked by regional characteristics. One might call it a Huntley-Brinkley dialect, a dialect aspiringannouncers would seek to emulate.”Dr. Dillard cited a recent study by McGill University’s Professors Lambert and Tucker of Tougaloo College freshman, inwhich students at the MississippiNegro school had an overwhelming preference for the ConsensusStandard dialect.Educated Southern white speech received th lowest rating, even lower than uneducated Negro speech.The only forseeable difficulty.” Dr. Dillard said, in teaching the Consensus Standard is that teachers who have not mastered the dialect may not be in adequate supply. There are, however, other strategies, especially involving the use of recorded models of the type which might be found to be acceptable for imitation by the disadvantaged population.While Dr. Dillard calls for the use of the Consensus Standard dialect, he has expressed the view, still held, that the disadvantaged child should have the option of learning to read in either black’ or standard” English.A native of Dallas, Texas, he was Fulbright nrofessor during -I 1967-68 at Universite* Officiclle de Bujumbra, Burundi. He served for five years as associate professor with the University of Puerto Rico and research associate with the Institute of Caribbean Studies.The Florida Foreign Language Reporter edited by Alfred C. Aarons, is published semiannually in North Miami Beach in cooperation with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and the Modem Language Association of America.Infr0ehE
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Greensboro Future Outlook
Greensboro, North Carolina, US
Fri, Apr 11, 1969
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