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Alim's Speech: Non-Standard Language

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As Alim has mentioned, the way she spoke with him was not entirely “standard.” The way she talked to him showed what she was thinking of the language variety that her Black students spoke. Seeing it as “non-standard” and implying that it is an unacceptable variety and that they should speak “standard” English even though she does not really entirely speak it while she is talking to Alim.
In her speech, there were a lot of “like” interfering with her speech in places in her sentences that considered in “standard English” as ungrammatical. She was also interrupting her sentences flow with phrases like: “I mean” and “you know” a lot. This is not the “sophisticated” and “standard” English that she is trying to make her Black students speak. And

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