I don’t even want to say it was mixed,” says William Brennan about what he saw in his reporting for The Atlantic. “For every good article on the subject there were just 10 that were useless and furthered misunderstandings about the topic and language in general.” Blair I. V., Judd C. M., Fallman J. L. (2004b). The automaticity of race and afrocentric facial features in social judgments. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 87

Well, why does this matter? As flippantly as we can talk of language myths, put simply, what’s widely considered bad grammar, or bad language, can have truly problematic repercussions for how many people live, especially for those who speak dialects that aren’t considered standard, mainstream, or prestigious. It still is very much the case that many people, without thinking, can harbor negative assumptions about the different ways other people speak. This can have a profound effect on how whole speech communities can live, learn, work, and even play. Getting job interviews, renting an apartment, raising kids to have better options and advantages, even getting through an unexpected, fraught interaction with the police— all these things can be made much harder simply because of a particular accent or dialect. Phillips T. (2010). Put your money where your mouth is: the effects of southern vs. standard accent on perceptions of speakers. Soc. Sci. What effect have the internet and social media had on the acceptance and recognition of this speech?The source of habitual be in AAE is still disputed. Some linguists suggest it came from the finite be in the 17th-to-19th century English of British settlers (perhaps especially those from South West England, but the usage may be the recent " Mummerset" in this context). Other linguists believe that it came from Scots-Irish immigrants, whose Ulster Scots dialects mark habitual verb forms with be and do be. Sweetland, Julie (2002), "Unexpected but Authentic Use of an Ethnically-Marked Dialect", Journal of Sociolinguistics, 6 (4): 514–536, doi: 10.1111/1467-9481.00199 Dent S. (2004). Attitudes of Native and Nonnative Speakers of English Toward Various Regional and Social U.S. English Accents. Salikoko Mufwene: Ebonics and Standard English in the Classroom: Some Issues EBONICS AND STANDARD ENGLISH IN THE CLASSROOM:

Osborne D., Davies P. G. (2013). Eyewitness identifications are affected by stereotypes about a suspect’s level of perceived stereotypicality. Group Proces. Intergroup Rel. 16 It still is very much the case that many people, without thinking, can harbor negative assumptions about the different ways other people speak. Andreoletti C., Leszczynski J. P., Disch W. B. (2015). Gender, race, and age: the content of compound stereotypes across the life span. Int. J. Aging Hum. Dev. 81 As it turns out, however, the main thrust of the Oakland proposal was overwhelmingly supported by linguists, and the approach it was recommending – using children’s home dialect to help teach standard English – had proven successful in other places in the past.

2. African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications

Criticism of that hypothesis stems from the fact that there is no evidence that be has been used as a habitual marker either in the past or today in Caribbean creoles of English. [4] Instead, Caribbean English uses the preverbal does to mark habitualness. They use be only as filler between does and the sentence's predicate. However, public opinion remains deeply divided on issues of culture and race. Teaching English to kids who are born and raised in the US remains unfamiliar and is negatively associated with the Ebonics controversy. While the student population is more diverse than it was two decades ago, classroom teachers in America are predominantly white and monolingual. This population often brings with it negative judgments about dialects – which some linguists call “dominant language ideology” – based on their own experiences and culture. Aspect: In language, aspect tells you how something happens. For example, he be dreaming does not mean “he is dreaming”; rather, it means “he tends to dream,” or maybe even “he dreams often.” It does not tell us that he is dreaming right now, but that he dreams regularly.