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| Johnson, Kenneth R. | 1 |
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Johnson, Kenneth R. – English Record, 1971
The purposes of this paper are: (1) to illustrate the nature of the difficulty when disadvantaged black children are taught reading by conventional methods; (2) to show that the conflict points, specifically, the phonological conflict points, need not be a problem if they are simply disregarded; and (3) to argue that disadvantaged black children…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Patterns, Nonstandard Dialects

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