Jessica Sumpter
English 484
March 6, 2008
TSW 278-316
In Chapter 8, Stylistic Problems from Nonstandard Dialects, of Beth Neman’s Teaching Students to Write, she reviews some of the problems that student’s who speak a nonstandard dialect of English, or those for whom English is a second language, have composing a paper. Neman discusses the idea that nonstandard speaking students thrive in the classroom when highly structured assignments are combined with highly individualized teaching. She discusses it only briefly. What exactly is meant, and how do we accomplish, highly individualized teaching with a highly structured program?
March 7, 2008
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