2. Prescribing & Describing-Cook

Reflection:

After reading and making the presentation I understand that theory is the way language is viewed by experts and practice is how we use it throughout life. 

Children have a great trouble dealing with grammar and the correct use of language because most parents don’t correct them since they were little and they take their errors to school and have to work really hard to correct them if their parents keep on using them at home.  At school, they must follow the grammar rules and speak like the teacher does, she will always correct them.

Standard language is the one used at school and dialects is the language spoken at home and in our social life.  Language might have a lot of variations because people according to their social life or nationality use it in different ways and some people don’t tolerate this which leads to disagreements.

  2. Prescribing and Describing: Popular and Academic Views of "Correctness"- Cook G.

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