According to Brown
(2001), an elementary school teacher once asked
her students to take a piece of paper and pencil
and write something. A little boy raised his hand
and said, "Teacher, I ain’t got no pencil."The teacher, somewhat perturbed by his grammar embarked on a barrage of corrective patterns: "I don’t
have a pencil. You don’t have a pencil. We don’t
have pencils."Confused and bewildered, the child
responded, "Ain’t nobody got no pencils?". This
example shows that children of certain age are focused on the here and now, on the functional purposes of language. About that, choose the ONLY
alternative which best illustrates a tip for teaching
children of such age.
