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On the Dialect Question and Reading. Technical Report No. 121.
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Hall, William S.; Guthrie, Larry F. – 1979
Representative research studies of the interference of Vernacular Black English (VBE) on beginning reading of VBE speakers at the phonological, grammatical, and lexical and content levels are examined. The following conclusions emerge: (1) phonological interference in learning to read has not been established; (2) VBE does not clearly interfere…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies