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Originally Posted by scaeagles
Geez - Ok then, take out the words "Bad habits are" and replace with "Speaking like this is".
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Well, then, you have the second scenario. By simultaneously saying, "You can't speak like this" and "It's not a language", you're implicitly saying that the only culture they know is wrong and improper. Bad news.
There are time-tested, proven techniques for teaching to kids who speak a foreign language. If, instead of denying the existance of the dialect, you accept it and work on teaching them what they need to know with language teaching techniques that work, a lot more students are going to be helped.