Standard Written English Essay

Too many bright students merge into higher educations, astonished by the “bad grades” they receive. It’s also not until their first couple of bad grades that they realize that the cause is very much likely to be embedded in their dialect of writings. Similar to Richard Rodriguez ideas, David Foster Wallace provided a significant discussion about Standard written English as well as the teaching of various English varieties. In ‘Authority and American Usage’, Wallace managed to explore most of the different dialects in English. This is similar to Rodriguez’ ‘Hunger of Memory’ where his stance against Bilingualism is as consistent as his favor for the necessity of assimilation (Lawtoo 221). In this paper, an identification of public dialects

These minority dialects are proven to be spoken/written at home and communities (Edwards, and others) yet still have a significant affect on school achievement because students also take the measures of utilizing such dialects inside the classrooms. This is what David Wallace recognizes as ‘unfit’. He believes that Standard Written English is “the dialect our nation uses to talk to itself”, however, it should never be someone’s only dialect. (Wallace

Teachers have the tendency of appraising students who ‘only’ speak in SWE and encourage others to embed the same dialect into their system, wherever they go. However. These teachers fail to notice that multiple linguistic skills leads to better social skills for children (Wallace 104). To illustrate, Wallace introduced SNOOTlets and their social disadvantages that are due to the lack of dialects. The lack of having more than one dialect will lead to social exclusion in school and among peers. Moreover, a dialect is learned because it is either your native vernacular or the dialect of a group by which you wish (with some degree of plausibility) to be accepted (Wallace 102).Whatever reason, teachers have a major effect, especially when Standard Written English is written and not spoken. It is very clear that “Writing provides even more of a language confrontation in school than speech… While in speech we can usually get some sort of feedback from a listener, but in writing we must assume the role of [ the] listener” (Baron 12). Regardless of any differences in dialect, native language, or usage of a certain language, a writing can be comprehended by all readers of English if the Standard Written English is