Qualitative measures
Gender
- I understand that children who grow up in different environments and cultures are going to develop different ways of speaking, but I also do not
believe that these informal ways of speaking developed in the home are appropriate for any occasion. When the
article mentions students becoming confident with one another and having a respect for each other's cultures,
that seemed like a great goal for a teacher to have. I do not really believe that it is necessary to take things
further than that though. By creating a project where each student analyzes their own way of speaking and coming
up with a group demonstration it only encourages informal speaking in a more formal setting. If proper ways of
speaking are not taught and enforced in class, where are students going to learn? Basically, the point I am trying
to make is that regardless of whether speaking informal variations of English are "right" or "wrong", in
most professional career settings they will be "wrong"--case closed. If two people interview for a job and
one speaks eloquently while the other uses slang, swears, and gives off an impression of not being able to
communicate professionally, it is obvious who the company will hire.