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Winters, Clyde A. – 1993
When children (particularly African Americans) have a different orthography, phonemic system, and deep structure from Standard American English (SAE) speakers, they may have difficulty grasping the correct SAE phonemes represented by the symbols and reading in general. Language acquisition is natural learning centered around the interaction of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students