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Benmamoun, Elabbas; Albirini, Abdulkafi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study examines heritage speakers' knowledge of Standard Arabic (SA) and compares their patterns of SA acquisition to those of learners of SA as second/foreign language (L2). In addition, the study examines the influence of previously acquired language varieties, including Colloquial Arabic (QA), on SA acquisition. To this end, the study…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pfaff, Carol W. – 1972
During the past fifteen years, a variety of linguistic analyses of the tense and aspect systems of dialects of English has been conducted. These analyses were bounded by several analytic dimensions. This paper treats three of these dimensions and discusses their interrelationships and implications in relation to two dialects--Black English and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Nonstandard Dialects, North American English

Cooley, Ralph E. – 1971
This study was based on a modification and extension of Greene's (1969) test wherein children choose structurally-transformed sentences which are synonymous with key sentences, thereby indicating recognition of the transformational relationships involved and internalization of those transformations. A similar test was devised to investigate the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dialects, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Damron, Shayla R. – 1977
Designed for the individualized instruction of non-mainstream (non-standard) dialect bearing students from middle school through secondary, this instructional packet attempts to develop flexibility in language whereby the dialect bearer will be able to assimilate the mainstream (standard) forms and phonology into his own idiolect without…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Dialects, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials