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Korn, Florence V. – 1973
Language samples were collected from 12 randomly selected black first graders of average intelligence, from low socioeconomic families in a New York City suburb. The language samples were analyzed for black English syntactic features and language structural patterns. Three basal reader passages were then selected and repatterned for each pupil, to…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Black Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 1
Rietz, Sandra A. – 1976
This study examined the hypothesis of a linear, bipolar continuum, with the principles of oral language at one end and those of written language at the other. Six sources of language were identified and arranged along the continuum, to reflect their underlying governing principles: spontaneous oral language of children, children's folk songs,…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Doctoral Dissertations