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Download full textDeffenbaugh, Sue A. – 1973
This study explored whether statistically significant differences exist between the (1) grammatical structures produced by high, average, and low black, inner-city elementary readers as measured by a language competency task; and (2) whether statistically significant interactions occur between reading achievement levels and the age of the child,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Grammar
Gantt, Walter – 1977
Based on transcribed conversations with black children in kindergarten and the intermediate grades, a study was devised to determine whether black urban children from lower socioeconomic areas speak a systematic, consistent form of nonstandard English, and if so, to provide a syntactical analysis of the dialect of nonstandard speakers. Speech…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Kindergarten Children
