abstract

Language and dialect play a huge role in society today and may become a way of ruining what we call standard english. Ever since AOL Instant Messenger arrived literacy has become a lesser thought in teens minds because of the dialects used with online conversations. Although we learn literacy in the classroom, this does not mean that we know how to use it outside of that setting when speaking standard english. The teen dialect is becoming more and more socially accepted and making literacy something of lesser importance and could one day become the very idea of literacy in the future. If we want to know all the different types of language we'd have to change our views on literacy. I will be using June Jordan's and Margaret Finder's essays to explain how dialects and languages could help and hurt literacy and the way its viewed.