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I have had good luck convincing high school students that they speak in a
dialect through showing and discussing the documentary film "American
Tongues." ( http://www.cnam.com/flash/language/american.html) The website
offers a study guide that isn't bad (click on the "downloads" link).
Though the film is a bit dated (students will quickly notice the 80s
hairstyles and clothes), the information it presents about American dialects
and stereotypes about those dialects is not.
Amanda
On 3/21/06 9:10 PM, "Jan Kammert" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I teach 8th grade in Washington state. We have just started reading the
> book Tom Sawyer as we do every year. Also every year more than one
> student complains that the dialect in Tom Sawyer is too difficult for
> them.
>
> When we have a conversation about dialect, I tell them that everyone has a
> dialect. I know that I have never convinced most of my students that even
> they have a dialect.
>
> Suggestions?
> Jan
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Amanda J. Godley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
English Education
University of Pittsburgh
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