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Goldstein, Lynn M. – TESOL Quarterly, 1987
In a study demonstrating that Black English was target for Hispanic boys acquiring English as second language, it was shown that extensive peer contact with Blacks was necessary but not sufficient for acquisition of two features of Black English (negative concord and distributive "be") and that choice of Blacks as reference played no role in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Dialects, Black Influences, Cultural Context