Qualitative measures
Language experience
- When in high school, I took an African-American Literature class. The class was
predominantly black, with the exception on one other white girl, and me. The teacher said he encouraged the use
of the class's home languages for every student, as long as profanity was not used. Through doing this, most of
the students expressed themselves throughout the year using what they called "Ebonics." At first I did not think
I was going to understand the language, but after weeks of exposure to it, I began to understand it more, and I
learned to embrace it. I came to realize how expressive my fellow students were, and found intelligence in them,
that I had at one time thought did not exist due to the lack of correct grammar.