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If you never went to formal schooling when little even in your home country— as many. Central Americans have not- you will have limited Spanish or village language and will not know how to formally learn a second language since you have no concept of parts of speech, verb conjugation, vacancy for anything in a developed society, punctuation, etc. Maybe some texting shortcut words [/quote]

You don't have to know any of that stuff in order to learn a second (or third, or fourth, or nth) language.[/quote]

When someone asks you to conjugate a verb in the present tense, you will NOT have the conceptual knowledge to do so.  So yes, you need to know basic grammar in order to learn another language.

Imagine then conjugating verbs in the future tense, past tense, imperfect, the past subjunctive . . . I could go on and on.  And then, if you're only "literate" in a spoken dialect, your vocabulary will mirror your community/village/town.

Put me in Northern Italy or Sicily - in towns where dialects are spoken - and there's no way I can pick up on the language, as many of these dialects are VERY different from the standard.

So no, Spanish dialects are NOT the same as standard Spanish.  So kids entering the country knowing only a dialect are starting at square one, with basic grammar (noun, adjective, adverb, verb).  Therefore, equity, in this case, means providing MORE resources for those programs in order to level the playing field.  Since resources are limited, schools are often robbing Peter to pay Paul.  And guess who suffers?  your average student

But that's the county's definition of equity. [/quote]

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