1. What did they say in regard to your RQ?
All of my secondary sources take into consideration the constantly changing rules of English grammar. They also agreed that teaching grammar to students speaking a different home discourse than the dominant discourse is challenging and brings up a lot of questions: How exactly do we do this as teachers? Sipe says it best when she asks, "How do we respect and honor students' own language?"
2. What gap still exists?
The question that remains after reading all of these articles is:
How do we introduce adolescents into genres and discourse communities that differ from their own while simultaneously respecting their own languages?
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As a future english teacher I think this research question is relevant because it something that teacher's struggle with daily. Especially in terms of respecting someone's particular language.
Your secondary research doesn't seem to have helped yet. I think you have picked a very good topic to research about but I also think it is going to be one that is hard to research and perhaps find an exact answer on. Although, I am eager to read about your findings.
I think answering this question will fill a very large gap in schools. Many teachers struggle with teaching what is the standard english but also not disrupting a student's home discourse because they both individually are very relevant to a person. I think having this question answered would help fill in the gap that seperates those students who are having troubles.
Secondary sources might be useful for finding past experiments. Or ideas in general relating to the two topics individually.
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