Blog 19: Introduction and Literature review

Introduction:

The United States is expanding rapidly and this partly due to many people coming from places outside of the

U.S. One huge problem for them is that most of them do not speak traditional English fluently and in order to

get a decent job and be used in the U.S. for popular things, you must speak a large amount of English. There

are families that enroll their children into schools in the United States but do not realize the difficulty that the

children will have adjusting to the fluent English speaking classrooms. Today, some children have different

reactions to what they are faced with in the classroom of traditional English. In this essay, I plan to show how

children that come from "non-standard English" homes are affected in the classroom.

Literature Review:

I want to know how "non-standard English" speaking students are affected in a traditional English speaking

classroom. This research is important to language research because it provides information and educates

others on how these students are affected and what can be done to easily incorporate them in the classroom.

This is a topic that needs to be dealt with in everyday life and there should always be a solution to problems

that arise in dealing with this topic. Authors Luic Moll and Norma Gonzalez in a book entitled Literacy: A

Critical Sourcebook conducted research about a girl named Lupita and how she was able to work with

traditional English speaking students. Spanish was her first language but she was rapidly learning English. She

was required to do a project and she chose books that were all in English. Her teacher had to help her with

some of it but she successfully completed the project and was able to use both Spanish and English with it. In

another research, a boy named Jose was put into a traditional English classroom. His teacher did not know

how to properly handle the situation and wondered why he was pit in her classroom. Both of the researches

are interesting and have given me the desire to delve more into studying the topic. I would like to find out

how much the educational system values these types of students. This project is important to me because it

will help me to know how to appropriately include these students in my classroom in the near future.