“Do poor children have less ‘language ability’ than rich
ones? The way the term is being used above certainly
makes it sound as if they do. But no, they don’t. Linguists
have known for years that all children—including poor
children—have impressive language ability. The vast
majority of children enter school with vocabularies fully fit
for everyday life, with complex grammar and with deep
understandings of experiences and stories. It has been
decades since anyone believed that poor and minority
children entered school with ‘no language’ (Labov, 1972;
Gee, 1996). Every human being, barring those with very
serious disorders, acquires a complex native language early
in life, a language fully fit for the task of leading daily life in
a human culture.”
(GEE, James Paul. Situated Language and
Learning: a critique of traditional schooling. London, Routdlege, 2004.)
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