Teaching the Politics of Standard English

@article{Curzan2002TeachingTP,  title={Teaching the Politics of Standard English},  author={Anne Curzan},  journal={Journal of English Linguistics},  year={2002},  volume={30},  pages={339 - 352},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143816335}}
  • Anne Curzan
  • Published1 December 2002
  • Sociology
  • Journal of English Linguistics
L'A. expose son point de vue d'enseignant en anglais dans une universite americaine quant au role que joue l'enseignant dans l'eveil d'une pensee critique chez les etudiants a propos des varietes standard et non-standard d'anglais et la prise de conscience de l'importance des dialectes americains face a l'ideologie qui voudrait defendre la purete d'une langue standard unique 

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