Abstract
Language and culture or language and society are intimately related, although they are not always thought of as related in reference to education. This relation which exists between, for example, social differences and dialect differences, can be important to the teacher who then must decide whether there is a variety of English which he or she must emphasize because of its social implications. The problem of the socioeconomically-disadvantaged child and his oral language development is particularly relevant in the discussion of language and culture.
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