English and, say, Dutch are fairly similar languages That doesn't mean it would be helpful to teach a Dutch speaker English by calling Dutch "bad English" and yelling at them every time they slip into it
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Specifically the original Ebonics controversy centered around people noticing that English teachers like to do a lot of condescending interrupting in the middle of someone talking, treating a use of nonstandard grammar as a "mistake" or "slip"
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"It don't feel like --" "It DOESN'T feel like" This is really fucking annoying, and it doesn't actually teach anyone anything It disrupts your original train of thought and just makes you frustrated
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Again it's based on the idea that using the "wrong" verb here is the result of just being "lazy" or "not paying attention" If you actually understood that AAVE was its own consistent language with its own set of rules you wouldn't act like that
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The point of "Ebonics" education wasn't to teach the whole curriculum in "Ebonics" and never speak Standard English It was to treat AAVE as its own language and treat learning Standard English as a second language, no different than teaching a Spanish speaker English
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You don't interrupt someone with "DOESN'T, not don't", you let them finish their original statement in AAVE and then *translate* it into Standard English with the two sentences side by side There's nothing controversial about this unless you consider AAVE itself a shameful thing
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There's really no better proof of this than the fact that the average conservative can't manage like, six words of convincing AAVE.
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acknowledging that you are in fact teaching someone a new sort of grammar--a new and distinct dialect of english--when you teach them academic style is the only way to do it effectively
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it gets away from guilt and towards actual learning
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There are plenty of countries/ languages where “formal” speech varies much more from spoken dialect than in Standard English, and they manage to teach children the Standard dialect fine.
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