| Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page | Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond “Mistakes,” “Bad Mistakes,” and “Wrong Language”
Elbow, P. (n.d.). Inviting the Mother Tongue: Beyond “Mistakes,” “Bad English,” and “Wrong Language”. |
| Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words | In summarization this article is about the correlation between students, their teachers, and the students mother tongue. In the article Elbow talks about how students tend to feel less smart because the teachers do not accept their mother tongue as correct. The teachers see Standard Written Language as the correct way to write papers and some do not accept any other way. Peter Elbow says “ The two goals are: safety in the classroom with the mother tongue and to produce correct SWE.” Elbow emphasizes in this article that SWE is not anyone’s mother tongue. My thoughts on this are that I agree with Elbow’s statement in that it is the teachers goal to teach students the correct way to write instead of putting the student down and making them feel discouraged because their mother tongue is not accepted |
| Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
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Dialect – A students dialect is their mother tongue and is not accepted by most writing teachers |
| How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?
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I have not really had any research on similar articles from previous classes |
| Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. | What is the biggest difference between mother tongue and SWE? Why is SWE not taught at an earlier age? |
