Cody Brunton
12/05/08
Ethnography paper

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Research Questions:
What is your definition of Standard English and are there any particular terms you associate with the idea?
What does Standard English look like while instruction is taking place?
When grading student work, how do you deal with use of non-standard English?
How do you address issues surrounding Standard English during instruction?
-For Example: Students who believe that integrating them into Standard English takes away their identity and a piece of their cultural background?
How do you feel about the use of non-standard English in the classroom? By students or yourself.

Primary Sources:
Mrs. Lona Brunton. Language Arts Teacher At Frederick High School.
Dr. Pamela Coke. Professor in the English Education Department at C.S.U.
Professor Gerald Delahunty. Professor in linguistics at C.S.U.

Major Findings:
Standard English is they type of English that is codified in grammar text books. The kink of English that is spoken in public, or formal places.
Teachers should speak formal English in the classroom as much as possible unless the context of the assignment or lecture lends for them to do otherwise.
Teachers should expect, for the most part, for their students to respond using standard English unless again the context of the situation lends for them to do otherwise.
Teachers should grade student work according to standard English when the situation asks for it. For a research paper but maybe not on a poem.

Secondary Sources:
Delpit, L. Other people’s children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: New Press. (1995)

Fecho, Bob. “Critical Inquiries into Language in an Urban Classroom.” Journal of Education . Volume 34. (2000)

Gee, James Paul. "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction and What is Literacy?." Journal of Education 171.1(1989): 20.

Wheeler, Rebecca S. “Code-Switch to Teach Standard English.” English Journal Volume 94. May, (2005).