When this approach failed, linguists suggested that AA children only spoke a different dialect than white children and that consequently, it would be necessary to teach them SE as an additional dialect.
To counteract this, it financed compensation programmes in which AA children should be taught Standard English (SE) 'by means of structural drills and techniques adopted from foreign language learning'. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Pre-University Paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 15,, language: English, abstract: African American English (AAVE) was first brought to the attention of linguists when in the 1960s, the government realised that African American (AA) children from urban ghettoes were worse in school than white pupils. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.Taschenbuch. Janie is one black woman who doesn’t have to live lost in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, instead Janie proclaims that she has done “two things everbody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. Though Jaine’s story does not end happily, it does draw to a satisfying conclusion. Light-skinned, long-haired, dreamy as a child, Janie grows up expecting better treatment than she gets until she meets Tea Cake, a younger man who engages her heart and spirit in equal measure and gives her the chance to enjoy life without being a man’s mule or adornment. With haunting sympathy and piercing immediacy, Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of Janie Crawford’s evolving selfhood through three marriages. Out of print for almost thirty years, but since its reissue in paperback edition by the University of Illionois Press in 1978, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. When first published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman was generally dismissed by male reviewers. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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