Background
- "Attitudes toward particular language varieties are taken to be
attitudes toward speakers of those varieties" (Ryan, Giles & Sebastian, 1982, p. 2).
- It should be a priority to prepare teachers to develop more
appropriate responses to dialect
diversity because "dominant pedagogical repsonses to stigmatized dialects are
damaging and counterproductive" (Godley et al., 2006, p. 31).
- Much of the research has been done with inservice
teachers rather preservice teachers.