AAE Speakers Become Effective Standard English Writers because by speaking like AAE influences their ability to write standard English more effectively. By seeing and hearing how AAE sounds or looks on paper the writer might catch a mistake and be able to fix because the writer knows that's not how the word should be spelled or said outloud.
Also people who speak AAE have fewer problems developing proficiency in standard English. In the process of learning standard English people bring to the classroom expectations which makes put their language and comparing it to standard English making it easier to understand and write.AAE relies less on word endings to convey grammatical information, which gives AAE a wider range of sentence patterns. Also why AAE is effective for Standard English is because it also uses a lot of things the Standard English uses such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and etc. Making it the same concept of Standard English. AAE isn't the lazy way. AAE defys norm. AAE is its own language, it's just different from Standard English. There are many books and novels written in AAE.
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It seems like we have paid a lot of attention in this class to African American English, but truthfully, a lot of the conclusions that have been made about AAE could probably be translated to any other form of slang, and pretty much all spoken language. Spoken language is different from written language for pretty much everybody, and I really can't say that I know anyone who talks as properly he/she writes. I did like the suggestion in this article for students to write out what they are saying, because that will make it very easy for them to identify their errors.
ReplyDeleteI most definitly have to agree with Nick again on this issue. We have dealt with African American English so much, and I really find it pointless. For one I do not believe there is any such thing as African American English. I am African American and I do not use Ebonics. So this is idea of African American English is a strong fallacy that I am not understanding at all. Some people use slang. There should not be a race tied to slang. To me it is somewhat insulting, and irrelevant to this grammar course.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am not African American I must say I agree with Alexandria and Nick in saying that we have spent a lot of time talking about this subject. In agreement to what Nick stated, I believe that there is a huge difference between the written language and the spoken language. I also don't believe that there is no such thing as African American English if not all African Americans use it. I agree with Alexandria that there should be no race tied to slang and calling a form of language African American English could be very offensive.
ReplyDeleteEven though it may seem like the author of this article may have been somewhat insulting towards African Americans, I do not think this was his/her intention. Every person has his/her own way of pronouncing words. No matter how much grammar a person knows, he/she is more likely to have a certain slang his/her speech. The area/environment that a person is raised in has a lot to do with how a person speaks. For example, a person from Tennessee is most likely going to have a country accent and pronounce words incorrect. This is just the person's style of speech. When you think about it, there really is not one correct way to pronounce words.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting how the article stated that "AAE Speakers Become Effective Standard English Writers because by speaking like AAE influences their ability to write Standard English more effectively." This is almost ironic. Someone who speaks AAE is more likely to be more effective with Standard English? It almost contradicts itself. I find it fascinating.
I agree with all the above statements. writing out what you say is a perfect way of teaching how to write and speak. showing kids how words should be pronounced in english classes at an early age would be very helpful.
ReplyDeleteAAE is a very interesting because many people agree with it and many people do not. I feel that AAE will never become a standard way of English because I feel it is used in more or a social setting. We all have been taught to write in a certain way and I feel we would be taking a step backwards when having to try to teach the correct form to write in Ebonics.
ReplyDeleteAs an English class, I think that we have focused way to much on "AAE." Even though I know nothing of the language, my roommate who claims to speak AAE is a photojournalism major who writes really impressive standard English papers. It is my personal belief this topic depends more upon the person, depending if they have the will to learn Ebonics or not.
ReplyDeleteI have read a lot about AAE during this semester in this class. There are some people that state that AAE is its own language and others disagree with this. I believe that anyone can catch their own mistakes on paper and a lot of people do not write how they speak. I don't not agree that this is only related to AAE. However, this article had interesting arguments.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that AAE is "lazy." I believe it is just an informal way to communicate with friends or family. It is just the way some people talk and I believe AAE is a language of its own.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of the comments on this blog that we have spent a lot of time on this topic. I do not believe that AAE is a language of its own or a form of being "lazy". I believe that it all depends on the person if he or she writes how he or she speaks. Many people do not write how they speak and if they use AAE when they speak they often write their papers in standard English.
ReplyDeleteIn agreement with everyone else i feel that we have spent an excessive amount of time discussing AAE. The saddest part of the matter is that we have spent all this time discussing and researching it, and there are still people who look down upon it. Whether you view it as lazy language or not is completely up to the person viewing, however lets at least give it credit for being a unique language of its own. There is no denying its nothing like Standard English or many other forms of language which would categorize it as it's own language.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading this post and the comments i felt the same way; i thought that AAE, has already been discussed it this class. I don't feel that it should be a language or that it is a language. It is just a way that some people choose to speak in their everyday lives. I only con about it is that some people don't know how to cut off AAE, and use standard English
ReplyDeleteI believe African American English and Standard American English are the same English. I am African American and I do not feel that I have a different English just because of my heritage. I think instead of calling it African American English they should say Ebonics. Saying African American English is offensive to Black people and it judges them because not all African Americans speak that way.
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