The Importance Of Standard English?

The entire country is controlled by one language: English. English ties everyone together. It expresses our wants, needs, emotions, and everything in between. This language is the platform for most communication, not only in the U.S but also in several other countries. Amy Tan is the daughter of two immigrants, and she, as well as her parents, had to learn English when she came to the U.S. In “Mother Tongue”, she described how people assume that if you don’t know Standard English well, you are not well educated. She also states that we speak different English’s, based on the audience and context. So, does society place too much value on Standard American English? Society places too much value on the Standard American English. Even though learning a new language/English can be hard, and people might not be perfect at it at fist: people still broaden their intelligence in the process. When people learn Standard English it is probably not their mother tongue. When they learn it, they are opening themselves up to a different culture (they

There are billions of people that speak different languages (or different Englishes), but they learn Standard English so they can communicate with more people. There are also many other languages that come close to the popularity of Standard English, so they should be just as valuable. Amy Tans mother learned Standard English so that she could communicate with the people around her: since most people she knew spoke Standard English. When my family came to the U.S we weren’t obligated to learn English but it was practical to learn it (but we still could talk to many people in the U.S without knowing English). The reason we learned it is the same reason Amy Tan and her mother learned it: in order to communicate with a wider audience. Most people learn Standard English to broaden the groups of people they can talk