There's been plenty of research showing that the idea that a nonstandard dialect of English is just someone being "lazy" or "sloppy" and that you can turn them into standard English speakers by just berating them to work harder is tremendously damaginghttps://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1285932872138883072 …
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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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When you’re training to teach English as a foreign language one of the first things they tell you is to resist the urge to correct students’ mistakes when they’re speaking; it discourages them from speaking and doesn’t actually help with their accuracy.
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Even if you genuinely believe the non-standard construction to be an error it wouldn’t be a productive thing to do, there’s just no excuse for it even on its own terms.
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"You'll start correcting me the day you speak my native language better than I speak yours, until them shut up and refrain from annoying your better" became my personal answer people complaining about my grammar or accent well over a decade ago. Of course…
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The fact that my native language is French, something perceived as a "cultured people language" does help a lot when it comes to demanding that my interlocuters remain polite.
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