re Re: re Re: re Re: SLSL language

[David Morris]

> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > 
> > But it would never be a question of blindly using the same teaching methods
on ALL special groups.  Using the home language as a means of teaching standard
English (contrastive language teaching) would only be employed where is it
shown to be useful and necessary. It's not really a question of "accomodating"
everyone in the same way out of some notion of fairness,  but of what works on
a particular group of children. Fairness consists of seeing to it that everyone
comes away competent in standard English.

So then it's OK to tell SOME children that their homey-grammar is inferior, but
not OK to say the same thing to OTHERS?

David Morris

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