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Speech Samples of Disadvantaged Children' by N OOCUMRN? RRSUMR ED 032 298 TE 001 501 By -Davis. A. L.. Ed. American Dialects for English Teachers. Interim Report. Illinois State -Wide Curriculum Study Center in the Preparation of SecondaryEnglish Teachers (ISCPET). Urbana. Sports Agency -Of ficd? of Education OKA Washington. D.C. Bureau of Research. Bureau NoBR-S-0M Pub Date May 69 Contract -0EC -5.10.029 Note-110p. Available fromA. L. Davis, Center for American English, Illinois Instituteof Technology. Chicago. 111. 60616 Cfree or on loan) FORS Price MF -SOW HC Not Available from (DRS. Descriptors -*American English, Diachronic Linguistics. *Dialects, Dialect Studies,*Disadvantaged Youth. *English Instruction. Grammar, Inservice Teacher Education,Language. Language Usage. Nonstandard Dialects, Regional Dialects. Social Dialects. Teacher Education. TeachingMethods Identifiers -Project English This report is designed to aid the collegeinstructor preparing prospective English teachers in the area of dialect studies. It includesa general description of the nature of dialect. teaching suggestions. andan extensive annotated bibliography. The articles which makeup the report are as follows: 'Historical. Regional and Social Variation" by Raven I. McDavid. Jr.; 'The Study of Dialects"by N. Louanna Furbee; "Suggestions for Teaching American Dialectsby A. L. Davis; "Problem Areas in Grammar by WilliamCard and VirginiaGlenn McDavid; 'Speech Samples of Disadvantaged Children' by N. Louanna Furbee. Emiiy Pettigrew Norris. and Dagna Simpson; "Abbreviated Checklist of Lexical Items in Dialects by A.L. Davis; and 'A Checklist of Significant Features for Discriminating Social Dialects'by Raven I. McDavid. Jr. (Author) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVEDFROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT.POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICEOF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY. INTERIM REPORT USOE Project Number HE-145 USOE Contract Number 0E-5-10-029 ISCPET Subcontract Number SS-12-32-67 ILLINOIS STATE-WIDE CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER IN THE PREPARATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS (ISCPET) American Dialects for English Teachers Edited by A. L. Davis Center for American English Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois 60616 May 1969 The research reported herein was performed pursuant to a contract with the Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health,Education, and Welfare, and to a subcontract with the Illinois State-Wide Curriculum Study Center in the Preparation of Secondary School English Teachers, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Con- tractors and subcontractors undertaking such projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their professional judgment in the conduct.of the projects.Points of view or opinions stated do not, therefore, necessarily represent official Office of Education position or policy. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Office of Education Bureau of Research ILLINOIS STATE-WIDE CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER IN THEPREPARATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEACHERS (ISCPET) Project Headquarters: Director: J. N. Hook 1210 West California Associate Director: Paul H. Jacobs University of Illinois Research Associate: Raymond D. Crisp Urbana, Illinois 61801 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Raymond D. Crisp, University of Illinois,non-voting member William H. Evans, Southern Illinois University,past member John S. Gerrietts, Loyola University, pastmember and Chairman John M. Heissler, Illinois State University,past Chairman J. N, Hook, University of Illinois Paul H. Jacobs, University of Illinois Alfred L. Papillon, DePaul University, Chairman Justus R. Pearson, Illinois Wesleyan University,past member and Chairman Roy K. Weshinskey, Southern Illinois University,past Chairman COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS AND PARTICIPATINGINSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVES Aurora College- Roy L. Crews and Ethel W. Tapper Bradley University- W. F. Elwood and Paul Sawyer DePaul University- Margaret M. Neville and Alfred L. Papillon Greenville College- I. D. Baker and Donald Pennington Illinois Institute of Technology- A. L. Davis and Henry C. Knepler Illinois State University- Victor E. Gimmestad and John M. Heissler Illinois Wesleyan University- Justus R. Pearson and Clifford Pfeltz Knox College- Michael G. Crowell and Carl Eisemann Loyola University- James Barry and Sister Mary Constantine Monmouth College- Grace Boswell and Ben T. Shawver North Central College- Richard M. Eastman and Erling Peterson Northwestern University- Sidney Bergquist and Wallace Douglas Olivet Nazarene College- Fordyce Bennett and Vernon T. Groves Rockford College- William D. Baker and Ronald Podeschi Roosevelt University- William Leppert and William Makely Saint Xavier College- Thomas Deegan and George K. McGuire Southern Illinois University- Ellen A. Frogner and Roy K. Weshinskey University of Chicago- Janet A. Emig and Robert Parker University of Illinois- J. N. Hook and Paul H. Jacobs Western Illinois University- Alfred Lindsey, Jr. and Sherman Rush ADVISORY COMMITTEE Harry S. Broudy, University of Illinois Dwight L. Burton, Florida State University Robert Bush, Stanford University Nelson W. Francis, Brown University Nathaniel Gage, Stanford University Alfred H. Grommon, Stanford University William Riley Parker, Indiana University (Deceased) Robert C. Pooley, Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Loren Reid, University of Missouri William Sheldon, Syracuse University James R. Squire, formerly of the University of Illinois;past Executive Secretary, National Council of Teachers of English TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 A. L. Davis HISTORICAL, REGIONAL AND SOCIAL VARIATION 3 Raven I. McDavid, Jr. THE STUDY OF DIALECTS 13 N. Louanna Furbee SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING AMERICAN DIALECTS 23 A. L. Davis PROBLEM AREAS IN GRAMMAR 26 William Card and Virginia Glenn McDavid SPEECH SAMPLES OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN 55 N. Louanna Furbee, Emily Pettigrew Norris, Dagna Simpson ABBREVIATED CHECKLIST OF LEXICAL ITEMS IN DIALECTS 57 A. L. Davis A CHECKLIST OF SIGNIFICANT FEATURES FOR DISCRIMINATING SOCIAL DIALECTS . 62 Raven I. McDavid, Jr. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 67 American English Dialects 68 Animal Behavior and "Language" 73 Bibliographies 74 Computational Linguistics 77 Educating the Disadvantaged 78 English Linguistics (General) 81 General Linguistics 85 Glossaries 90 Linguistics and the Teaching of English 90 Paralanguage and Non-Verbal Communication 93 Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics 95 Research in Progress 97 Selected Articles from Language Learning 99 Teaching English as a Foreign Language 100 Using the Language Laboratory 106 William M. Austin, Lawrence M. Davis, N. Louanna Furbee, Emmett Lally, Emily Pettigrew Norris, Joseph Roy, Dagna Simpson iii INTRODUCTION Illinois State-Wide Curriculum The preparation for Englishteachers recommended by the (ISCPET)1 shows many Study Center in the Preparationof Secondary SchoolEnglish Teachers practicing teachers needsimprovement. areas where thebackground of prospective and of little preparation in dialectologyand sociolinguistics because There has been relatively has been left teaching materials have not beenreadily available. In large part, the field lectures at professional to specialists who in institutes,seminars, workshops, general given brief sketches of the meetings and in papers publishedin professional journals, have kind of work they are doing. Institute of This report is an attempt tofill this gap. As a part of the Illinois Studies were conducted. One Technology's participation inISCPET, two Special Research the United States andCanada, collected taped speech samplesof standard English used in This study also at- and another study developed asyllabus for a course indialectology. with that syllabus or in any tempted to prepare and assemblematerial which could be used There is not enough materialhere course devoted to thestudy of dialectology orlanguage. It would be superfluousto pre- for a complete semester'swork in dialectology, of course. because it would have to betaught by a specialist whowould prepare pare such a syllabus the non-spe- his own course following his ownresearch. Instead we have hoped to provide be able to devote a partof cialist college teacher withenough material so that he will teaching English to aconsideration of his course in the Englishlanguage or in methods of dialect problems. materials are directed toexperienced In addition, the coursesyllabus and the related be a useful aid inin-service high school English teachers. We hope that this report can about dialects, and aboutlan- education programs as well as anaid to teaching dialects, guage. Jr., which was originally pre- The report begins with anarticle by Raven I. McDavid, non-ISCPET USOE project under thetitle of Lan a e ResourceInforma- pared as a part of a 1W7770711, 1969) tion for Teachers of theCulturally Disadvantaged(USOE 6-1340;0E-3-7-0 direction; Mr. McDavid's article,"Historical, Regional, and Social and under my general of the background Variation," is placed in the introductoryportion of this report because give the reader. The substance of thisarticle was information on dialects which it can However, it is first published in the March,1967 issue of Journal of EnglishLinguistics. Mr. Robert Peters, editorof JEL, reprinted here, with thepermission of Mr. McDavid and because of its revisions andits applicability. A Preliminary 1J. N. Hook, "Qualifications of SecondarySchool Teachers of English: Statement," College English,
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