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Butters, Ronald R. – 1975
Earlier sociolinguistic studies distinguish between Standard English and Black English with respect to indirect question formation. Standard English typically does not invert the tense-marker "do" in the imbedded question ("Ask John if he played basketball today") while Black English does ("Ask John did he play basketball today"). In fact, the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Styles, Nonstandard Dialects
Ginn, Doris O. – 1975
The topic of black dialect, a timely concern in education and society, should include an understanding of the relationship between language and culture and an understanding of the differences within ethnic and environmental influences contributing to linguistic diversity. Characteristics in black dialect which reflect its descent from African…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Cultural Influences, Language Patterns
Weaver, Constance – 1974
This paper argues that it may be much more damaging, psychologically, to try to correct the written usage of persons whose nonstandard written forms correlate with their spoken dialect than to try to correct the nonstandard written forms of persons who do not use nonstandard forms in their speech. It is possible that nonstandard speakers will view…
Descriptors: Black Education, English, Higher Education, Language Patterns
Awa, Njoku E. – 1974
The first section of this paper is a general discussion of standard English. The nine sections which follow discuss the concept of correctness and the ideological differences between grammarians and purists; standard English in a historical perspective; Eric Partridge's (1969) taxonomy of the degrees and kinds of standard English, including…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Dialect Studies, Educational Research, Language Patterns
Nilsen, Don L. F. – 1976
This paper attempts to dispel a number of misconceptions about the nature of meaning, namely that: (1) synonyms are words that have the same meanings, (2) antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, (3) homonyms are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, (4) converses are antonyms rather than synonyms, (5)…
Descriptors: English, English Education, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Weaver, Constance – 1974
Because of the tendency to reject Black English speakers, perhaps as an excuse for maintaining social and racial prejudices, teachers should understand that nonstandard dialects result from geographical and/or cultural isolation and conflict (as in Applachian English), and from linguistic conflict (as in Chicano English). The language of many…
Descriptors: African Culture, Black Dialects, Black History, English Instruction

Mays, Luberta – 1974
This four-part study, which focused on the relationship between the incidence of Black English and the child's perception that Black English is not preferred speech, identified the phonological characteristics in the dialect speech of black second grade children of low socioeconomic background in New York City public schools. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, English
Asante, Molefi Kete – 1976
An approach to reading instruction utilizing communicative styles from the black community is suggested by the metatheoretical framework outlined in this essay. The social class constructs, language deficit models, case histories, surrealistic rhetoric and lyrical quality of black discourse can be conceptualized within the context of the following…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
Fox, G. Thomas, Jr. – 1974
Syntactical rule differences in black dialect that can be more helpful to young adolescents' perceptions than the corresponding rules in standard English were studied. The syntactical rule in black dialect that was identified as being more explicit than the corresponding rule in standard English was the invariant "be" verb form (as in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Dialects, Black Students, Junior High School Students
Byron, Janet – 1974
This paper suggests that new approaches are needed in the study of language standardization. One such approach is the consideration of standardization in terms of processes, i.e., in terms of series of related events, rather than as a group of unrelated discrete happenings. Borrowing is one recurring feature in language standardization, and in…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Culture Contact, Dialects, Diglossia
Stout, Steven Owen – 1977
The paper examines interpretive aspects of English non-uniformity among fifth and sixth grade Native Americans at Laguna Elementary School, Laguna, New Mexico. Speaker assessments of instances of uninflected "be" are ordered to form an implicational scale. The variability in the students' assessment pattern is compared to previous inter-ethnic…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Dialect Studies
White, Hazel L. – 1976
Language development and dialect are measures of influences upon a student's ability to learn to read. It has been observed that students whose language differs from that used in schools and in the materials of instruction are often found in remedial reading classes. Their difficulty lies in attempting to learn to read a language which is…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Acquisition
Terrebonne, Robert A. – 1973
This variable rule analysis of the indefinite article "an" was done by means of a computer program developed by H. Cedergren and D. Sankoff of Montreal. The data was collected from 45-minute interviews with three different groups of college students essentially alike in age: (1) 13 whites from Louisiana, (2) 12 blacks from southwestern Ohio, and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Black Dialects, Computer Programs, Descriptive Linguistics
Weaver, Constance – 1983
As studies indicate that dialect usage is not a barrier to reading, teachers can create an effective reading program for black students not by giving instruction in standard English, but by changing their own attitude toward black dialect. Showing that dialect users reencode standard English into their own language patterns when reading orally, Y.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Black Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Patterns
Hochel, Sandra S. – 1983
The goal of instruction in mainstream dialect (MD) acquisition should be to expand students' oral communication skills to include skills needed for academic and economic success, thereby making alternate dialect speakers bidialectic. This implies recognizing students' home dialect as a valid linguistic system and a part of their identity. Although…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Code Switching (Language), English, English Instruction
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