[SENco-forum] White UK Heritage/ standard English

Its the teachers job to teach English.  Perhaps it should run as a separate
class - business English and how to hold down a job.  While regional accents
are a must and I have to build this into rules when teaching English to
children with SpLD (bath/barth) there has to be standard for written English
otherwise we might as well give in and let them text.

Sharon

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Stuart Lucas
Sent: 26 March 2007 12:57
To: SEN at tringham.net; Becta Senco
Subject: RE: [SENco-forum] White UK Heritage

Standard English -
Which part of England/Scotland speaks this and who teaches it?
Stuart

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SEN at tringham.net
Sent: 25 March 2007 21:19
To: Becta Senco
Subject: RE: [SENco-forum] White UK Heritage

I think white middle class English is what most employers would deem
'Standard English' and like it or not that is the level they want their
employees to have.

There is a big difference between education start point (knowing where a
child is at and where they are coming from), motivation to learn (using
what
children know and building on that) and end result - a GSCE showing that
they can understand, manipulate, spell and correctly use Standard
English at
the level needed to hold down certain jobs. This is what GSCE's are for,
and
why there needs to be a range of boards or differing type of
qualifications.

I probably couldn't take a GCSE in Urdu, Welsh or Jamaica Patois but
this is
not what the Employers wish me to demonstrate in English GSCE.   I have
heard of Glastonbury. It doesn't interest me but that wouldn't hinder my
ability to answer the questions any more that if it were a piece on
Hindu
Festivals.  Motivation, or lack of it is something I have to deal with
all
the time with SpLD students and seems to be a particular problem with
boys
in English.  Don't know the answer and neither do all the current
researchers, but just changing the level or subject of the English
tackled
is not the answer.

Sharon

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Chrisgier at aol.com
Sent: 25 March 2007 19:50
To: richard_cook at blueyonder.co.uk; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] White UK Heritage

The board is AQA specification A as I have been working on Glastonbury
too!
One of the biggest problems seems to me to be the fact, I believe, that
in
the exam they are asked one quesiton based on the pre-release - no
shorter,
lower mark answers to get going, just a long piece of writing. Just
wonderful
for those who find it difficult to get ideas down on paper even if they
have
managed to access the vocabulary in the first place!
Chris

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