1 TESOL Assumptions & Dialect Reality Dialects are largely irrelevant to TESOL Dialect choices are inevitable and consequential in acquiring English

2 Dialects are incidental by-products of the normative, standard English taught in TESOL Dialects are highly patterned, intricate aspects of local accommodation related to acquiring English TESOL Assumptions & Dialect Reality

3 ESL learners are more tolerant of dialect diversity than native English speakers ESL learners develop dialect prejudices and stereotypes comparable to native English speakers

4 TESOL Assumptions & Dialect Reality TESOL programs have little to gain from considering information about English dialects There is great benefit-- theoretically and practically from the integration of information about dialects into TESOL

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