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Language Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Children: Considering a Strengths-Based Perspective
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Lee-James, Ryan; Washington, Julie A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
This article examines the language and cognitive skills of bidialectal and bilingual children, focusing on African American English bidialectal speakers and Spanish-English bilingual speakers. It contributes to the discussion by considering two themes in the extant literature: (1) linguistic and cognitive strengths can be found in speaking two…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Bilingualism, Children, Black Dialects
When It Comes to Explaining: A Preliminary Investigation of the Expository Language Skills of African American School-Age Children
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Koonce, Nicole M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This research investigated the expository language of school-age speakers of African American English. Specifically, the study describes the language productivity, syntax, and pragmatic features present in expository language samples produced by African American children and compares their performance with White children in the extant literature.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Syntax
Expressive and Receptive Language Effects of African American English on a Sentence Imitation Task
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Terry, J. Michael; Jackson, Sandra C.; Evangelou, Evangelos; Smith, Richard L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
This study tests the extent to which giving credit for African American English (AAE) responses on a General American English sentence imitation test mitigates dialect effects. Forty-eight AAE-speaking second graders completed the Recalling Sentences subtest of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (1995). A Bayesian…
Descriptors: Sentences, Black Dialects, Markov Processes, Syntax
Variable Use of Features Associated with African American English by Typically Developing Children
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Jackson, Janice E.; Pearson, Barbara Zurer – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
Purpose: The well-known decline in the use of African American English (AAE) features by groups of school-aged AAE-speaking children was reexamined for patterns of overt-, zero-, and mixed-marking for individual features and individual speakers. Methods: Seven hundred twenty-nine typically developing children between the ages of 4 and 12--511…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Black Dialects, Language Tests, North American English