End of ADS-L Digest - 19 Nov 1997 to 20 Nov 1997
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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 20 Nov 1997 to 21 Nov 1997

There are 11 messages totalling 358 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

 1. survey of attitudes and beliefs
 2. Rickford on Ebonics in Discovery (4)
 3. vernacular (2)
 4. linguistic heterogeneity
 5. Merzouri
 6. pragmatic change in progress?
 7. well and why

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Date:  Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:16:18 -0500
From:  sonja lanehart <lanehart[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ARCHES.UGA.EDU>
Subject: survey of attitudes and beliefs

A colleague (in Education) and I (in English and Linguistics) received a
collaboration grant to conduct a study on pre-service teachers' beliefs
and attitudes about language variation and linguistically diverse
students. The purpose of the project is to explore preservice teachers'
understandings of language variation, their attitudes towards linguistic
diversity, and the ways they plan on dealing with linguistically diverse
students in their classrooms.

What we'd like to ask is if anyone knows of an existing survey that looks
at any of these issues. We need to construct a survey and it would be
helpful if we knew of existing surveys we could access to help with this
project. Any help you can provide would be appreciated.   --SL

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