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Full integration does not require that you -only- be able to speak standardish english. I think the key of studying and destigmatizing AAVE is to allow the very
by icegreentea 10y ago
Full integration does not require that you -only- be able to speak standardish english. I think the key of studying and destigmatizing AAVE is to allow the very type of integration that you want. By raising AAVE to the standard of a "real" language/dialect, instead of just calling it "broken english" (thus casting the speaker as broken in someway), you now open the door to the speaker being bilingual - something that is both clearly attainable, and perhaps in many ways possibly beneficial.
Calling is broken generates defensive attitudes that will likely impede any actual process of integration.
- nicolas_t 10y agoThis. That's the most important point. There's been studies that shows that using the children's native dialect to teach reading results in faster progress. Making it clear that Standard English is a different language makes integration much easier. This is similar to kids learning Mandarin in China, they are taught that Mandarin is a different language than their dialect not that they speak broken Chinese, so they learn Mandarin and are eventually able to use it in business/formal situations.