Applied dialectology concerns the study and use of dialects in educational settings and issues related to language and society. There is an ongoing debate about what constitutes American English in different communities and how standard English can be effectively taught in schools. Approaches to teaching standard English include replacing vernacular dialects, balancing standard English and dialects depending on the situation, and promoting dialect rights by addressing ethnocentrism and prejudice. Successful teaching of standard English depends on factors like clear goals, understanding dialect diversity, and knowledge of how a second dialect is acquired.

1. Standard English and education

2. Applied dialectology Is a subfield of dialectology concerning the usage of the study of dialects in an educational setting or even in sociopolitical issues related to language.

3. Standards and english Decline of Standard English as a symbol of declining morals in american society. Underlying concern for the sovereignity of Standard English(influence of mass media).

4. Debate Questions What precisely is American English in a given community context, and who speaks it? What happens ot vernacular dialects when they confront the standard variety in different settings? Can Standard English be taught effectively in an educational setting?where and how is the Standard variety best learned?

5. What Standard? Levels of Standard English. Relevance of Formal Standard. Dialect v/s Accent. SAE v/s NSE

6. Approaches to Standard English Erradicationism: SAE must supplant vernacular varieties. Bidialectalism: a balance between SAE and Dialect According to the situation. Dialect Rights: an attack to the ethnocentrism and prejudice that are at the hear of dialect intolerance

7. Prospect For Success Lack of success on a wide-scale. Cultural implications. Stigmatization. Minor differences between standard and vernacular.

8. Conditions for teaching Standard English Group-Reference factor. Goals clearly recognized. Nature of dialect diversity and pedagogical instruction in standar English.

9. Sytematic differences between the standard and nonstandard English forms. Current understanding of how a second dialect is acquired.

10. Age of acquisiton General Assumption: during early childhood. Recommended age: during early adulthood.