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My students in Kansas City, like most students anywhere in the world, exhibit non-Academic uses of language that they pick up from home and from peer interactions. These uses of language are so comfortable and familiar that most young people do not realize they are not universally accepted in school or careers.

When we teach the patterns of Academic English, students can easily learn to add the Academic English usages to their code-switching strategies. Many teachers know to uncover the skill of code-switching and to help students maximize this capability, in order to prepare them for higher level schooling and employment. 

I use the verb "uncover" because everyone does code-switch, whether we know that term or not. We use different standards and registers of language in different environments, under different conditions, for different purposes, or for different effects.

When I wrote my lessons for The Grammar Graduate's Parts of Speech, I included mini-lessons on some of the specific non-Academic uses of each part of speech that I hear my students use. 

Within the lesson, I simply point out these uses as non-Academic and give the Academic use instead. Here's an example:

Many of my students grew up hearing the word "mines" used in place of "mine". Without judgement, I just identify that use as a common non-Academic pattern and give the Academic version in a section that begins with "Please note . . .".

At the end of the Parts of Speech lesson packet, I have included an exercise that gives students practice in transcribing several sentences with common, non-Academic uses into Academic English. 

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