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Linguistic Perspectives on Minority Education. Technical Report No. 275.

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Collins, James – 1983

Using a comparative and historical approach, this paper examines linguistic perspectives on minority education, specifically language-based explanations for the reading problems of working class minority group students. The paper first discusses the ways in which competence and performance theories of language treat the relation between language…

Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences