Black American English Style Shifting and Writing Error.

Morrow, Daniel Hibbs

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ERIC Number: EJ377406

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Publication Date: 1988

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Black American English Style Shifting and Writing Error.

Morrow, Daniel Hibbs

Research in the Teaching of English, v22 n3 p326-40 Oct 1988

Proposes a method for describing the relationship between writing error and style shifting rates across communicative situations. Finds that errors diminished in proportion to the tendency of students to select grammatical features that are shared by Black American English and Standard American English in formal communicative situations. (RAE)

Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language), Nonstandard Dialects

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Language: English

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