Consider Lysicott’s position that academic and/or formal English erases students’ individual cultures and ignores the mastery of language that every student already has and answer the following question based on your experience and critical thinking (while maintaining the formal third-person perspective):
Does being forced to rigorously adhere to an academic/formal standard in English classes silence those for whom academic language is not preferred, or, is learning to write a formal composition paper merely like learning an English dialect? Or both?
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