Development of a High School Mini-Course on the History, Variety, and Uses of American English

FAIN: GY-10443-77

Michael K. Smith
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To compile a series of tapes, to write a manual and workbook and to design a course on the dynamic nature of language which will be taught at a local high school. This course will introduce high-school students to the dynamic nature of language and to variety in language and to help students understand the power of language as a medium of control, to enable students to participate actively in the study of language variation and to emphasize to students language's importance to the humanities.