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Peer reviewedSternglass, Marilyn S. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Dialect Studies, Language Usage
Peer reviewedFeldman, Carol Fleisher; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1977
Some data dispute the common assumption of linguists that speakers of nonstandard varieties of English lack functional command of Standard English. Hawaiian high school students were found equally competent in Standard and Hawaiian English. Implications of this finding for educational practices in Hawaii are discussed. (CHK)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Language Ability, Language of Instruction
Peer reviewedChiu, Rosaline K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1972
Paper presented March 6, 1971, at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, La. (VM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Fluency, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedDay, Richard R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Reports the preferences and attitudes held by English- speaking primary school children in Hawaii toward Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) and Standard English (SE). Findings indicated that, while those from a lower socioeconomic strata initially favored HCE, SE was preferred by all by the end of grade 2. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction
Peer reviewedSiegel, Jeff – TESOL Quarterly, 1999
Summarizes research on educational programs that use stigmatized varieties of English in the classroom, and reviews relevant theory and research in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition. Research on educational programs shows that using the stigmatized variety in formal education seems to have a positive effect on the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Creoles, Elementary Secondary Education, English
