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Reduction of Socio-Economic Diversity through Standardisation of Language: Reflections and Challenges
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Norley, Kevin – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Could the standardisation of language narrow disparities in achievement in education amongst people of different social class, and within and across ethnicities and genders, and could this have implications for injustices and inequities in wider society? In analysing socio-economic diversity through the lens of its correlation with language, this…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Correlation, Standard Spoken Usage, Academic Achievement
To What Extent Does a Regional Dialect and Accent Impact on the Development of Reading and Writing Skills?
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Snell, Julia; Andrews, Richard – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
The issue of whether a regional accent and/or dialect impact(s) on the development of literacy skills remains current in the UK. For decades the issue has dogged debate concerning education outcomes, portable skills and employability. This article summarises research on the topic using systematic review methodology. A scoping review was undertaken…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Pronunciation, Geographic Regions
Dodgy Data, Language Invisibility and the Implications for Social Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of Indigenous Student Language Data in Queensland Schools
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Dixon, Sally; Angelo, Denise – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
As part of the "Bridging the Language Gap" project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be "invisible" in several key and self-reinforcing ways in school system data. A proliferation of inaccurate, illogical and incomplete data…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries, English
Prospective Teachers' Attitudes Toward Black English.
Harber, Jean R. – 1979
This study focused on one of the suggested causes of the poor academic performance evident among many black, lower socioeconomic status children, namely teachers' attitudes toward Black English. There is considerable empirical evidence to suggest that speakers of Black English are evaluated as inferior to speakers of Standard English by their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Blacks
The Relationship between Lexical Variation and Lexical Change.
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Johnson, Ellen – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Reports on a longitudinal study of nearly 1,000 English words to determine differences in usage in the United States in the 1930s and 1990s related to age, sex, race, education, region, and rurality. The results indicated that males, whites, older speakers, and speakers from rural areas use more older terms, whereas most educated speakers use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Attainment
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Bilingual Education: Experiments in the American Southwest.
Cohen, Andrew D. – 1975
This book incorporates a general discussion of bilingualism and its relation to sociolinguistic facts with a description of the Redwood City, California, bilingual education project, begun in 1969. Chapter 1 describes the phenomenon of bilingualism, while Chapter 2 deals with the concept of bilingual education. The relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism