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Inquiry 3 - Code-Switching 1
Inquiry 3 - Code-Switching 1
Inquiry 3 - Code-Switching 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gYeRY8thFE&feature=emb_logo
Linking Code-Switching to the BC Curriculum
BC’s New Curriculum: Goals and Rationale of English Language Arts
Rationale
“English Language Arts is a foundational curriculum that equips students with the
language and literacy skills they will need for success in school, community, career, and
life.”
Goals: included below are only some of the goals from BC’s New Curriculum
Every language has five registers. It is socially acceptable to drop down one register
within a conversation, but it can be socially offensive to drop two registers.
Payne, J. (2013) A Framework for Understanding Poverty: A Cognitive Approach
The Five Registers of Language and the Impact on Students
Living in Poverty
The inability to move between the five registers can have an effect of students who
come from poverty or less educated households. Not only do these learners have a
smaller vocabulary, but they also are unable to use the formal register.
Why? Because most of these dialects have their own consistent grammatical rules, and
students who speak in these dialects are following those rules. To be told their language
use is incorrect makes no logical sense: They are correctly using the features of another
language.”