Discrimination against people who speak English with a nonstandard accent or nonstandard grammar is called “linguistic prejudice.” Despite sounding relatively benign, it has a severe impact on people throughout their lives, starting in kindergarten and reaching into searches for housing or employment and interactions with the justice system.
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Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English - William Brennan2/6/2019 Does Code-Switching help student learn?
The speech pathologist believes that helping kids switch seamlessly between dialects is a key to their success. "By the end of fourth grade, 'switching' students—that is, students who are proficient in both their home dialect and standard English—score at least a full academic year ahead of their nonswitching classmates in reading." |
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