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It ain't what you say, it's the way you say it: Special educational needs and the teaching of standard spoken English
Author(s) -
SKIDMORE DAVID,
HARDMAN FRANK
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.1995.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - ain't , special educational needs , standard english , curriculum , special needs , prejudice (legal term) , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , special education , linguistics , social psychology , philosophy , psychiatry
David Skidmore and Frank Hardman take issue with the draft proposals for English issued by the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority particularly in respect of ‘standard spoken English’. They accuse the authors of misunderstanding, even prejudice, against pupils whose language is non‐standard. They fear that, as a result, many pupils will be wrongly identified as having special educational needs and those that do have such needs will be doubly dis‐advantaged. They seek a more linguistically informed and tolerant debate.