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Case 9
1. Creating a culturally and linguistically unbiased test is virtually impossible. A brilliant English student would fail an exam, were it given in Chinese. Telling a story or using open-ended questions can be less culturally deterministic than asking multiple choice and answer questions, but sometimes direct right and wrong answers are difficult to avoidit is hard to argue that students should not be required to learn nouns and common vocabulary for clothing. At best, a teacher can be as culturally and linguistically unbiased as possible, however, in grading a test. One cannot help but ask if a student were British, and incorrectly labeled the clothing on the example according to American speechlabeling a sweatshirt a jumper or a pair of rubber boots Wellies for example, if the teacher would have failed the child. The teacher might simply have explained the differences in word choice between America and the childs home country to Chloe. She could have used the experience as a teaching opportunityeven for the entire class. But British culture and slang, although different than American culture and slang, has more social and cultural cache than the girls Jamaican dialect
2. Besides the cultural and

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