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This programme looks at a legal judgement which has already been called a 'Landmark' decision in the history of Black English in the U.S.A. The judge found that the Black English venacular had beco...me a language barrier in the sense that teachers at Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School in Ann Arbor near Detroit did not take it into account in teaching a group of Black children to read and that this impeded the children's educational opportunities.
This programme looks at a legal judgement which has already been called a 'Landmark' decision in the history of Black English in the U.S.A. The judge found that the Black English venacular had beco...me a language barrier in the sense that teachers at Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School in Ann Arbor near Detroit did not take it into account in teaching a group of Black children to read and that this impeded the children's educational opportunities.
| Module code and title: | E263, Language in use |
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| Item code: | E263; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 20-05-1980 |
| Published: | 1980 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:24:02 |
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| Producer: | Richard Argent |
| Contributors: | Judge Joiner; Victor Lee |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Benjamin Alexander; Black English; Dell Hymes; Education; Gary Simpkins; Geneva Smitherman; Linguistics; William Labov |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73461 |
| Production number: | 00525_6234 |
| Videofinder number: | 2933 |
| Available to public: | no |
