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Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Karimi-Aghdam, Saeed – Online Submission, 2020
James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi'an Jiaotong…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al- Brri, Qasem Nawaf; Bani-Yaseen, Mohammad Fawzy Ahmed; Al-Zu'bi, Mohammad Akram; Al-Hersh, Mesfer Saud – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study aims at identifying the concept of diglossia, its causes and methods of treatment, and its negative effects. The researchers used the descriptive method. The study revealed the following most important results: Firstly, the reason for language diglossia is contact between languages and emergence of new other languages or dialects which…
Descriptors: Dialects, Semitic Languages, Grammar, Teaching Methods
Durst, Russel K. – Composition Studies, 2014
This article examines the work of Geneva Smitherman, its contribution to the development of composition studies, and its relation to recent scholarship on translingualism and code-meshing. Analyzing her prodigious output in relation to these contemporary studies of language diversity and writing instruction, the article considers Smitherman's…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African Americans, Code Switching (Language), Writing Instruction
Latterman, Caroline Kennelly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This experiment measured teachers' attitudes towards African American English and Academic English. Participants were graduate students of Education at a college in New York City. They completed a paper-and-pencil questionnaire that assessed their explicit attitudes towards the two varieties, as well as a Psycholinguistic Experiment that was…
Descriptors: African Americans, Black Dialects, Psycholinguistics, Teacher Attitudes
Thirusanku, Jantmary; Yunus, Melor Md – English Language Teaching, 2014
The main aims of this qualitative study are to identify and categorise the types of lexical borrowings from the three main Malaysian languages which are the Malay language, Chinese dialects and Indian languages used by 203 ESL teachers, to what extent these lexical borrowings are used and for what reasons. This study has identified a new category…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language)
Wiltse, Lynne – TESL Canada Journal, 2011
In this article I explore ethical issues in relation to the topic of Aboriginal students who speak a dialect of English. Taking the form of a retrospective inquiry, I draw on data from an earlier study that examined Aboriginal English in the broader context of Aboriginal language loss and revival. Three interrelated ethical issues are discussed:…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Language Skill Attrition, Dialects, Indigenous Populations
Basic Report for Targeted Communications; Teaching a Standard English to Speakers of Other Dialects.
Hess, Karen M. – 1972
Designed to interpret and synthesize the existing research and related information about dialects for those people who are involved in teaching a standard English to speakers of other dialects, the information in this report is based on an analysis and synthesis of over 1,250 articles and reports dealing with dialects and dialect learning. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education

Simons, Herbert D.; Johnson, Kenneth R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
No evidence was found to indicate that grammatical reading interference is an important factor in the poor reading achievement of Black youngsters. (JH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Dialect Studies, Grammar
Hopper, Robert – 1973
The approach to the study of black English usage that is based on a theory of linguistic differences between blacks and whites is inadequate, because it ignores the socioeconomic aspects of dialects. It does not resolve the problems that exist in schools for students who use black English regularly. The issue is made more complex since linguistics…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Language Research
Zimet, Sara Goodman – 1978
To dispel the myths of linguistic deficiency among nonstandard English dialect speakers, evidence that repudiates these myths should be examined. These myths include suggestions that nonstandard dialects are ungrammatical and cannot be used to form concepts, and that speakers of such dialects receive little verbal stimulation as children. The…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Dialects, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Godley, Amanda J.; Sweetland, Julie; Wheeler, Rebecca S.; Minnici, Angela; Carpenter, Brian D. – Educational Researcher, 2006
Scholarship on dialect diversity in classrooms has yielded two seemingly incompatible lines of research. Although numerous pedagogical approaches have been shown to provide productive alternatives to traditional responses to stigmatized dialects, research on public perceptions and teachers' attitudes suggests that negative beliefs about…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Nonstandard Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Teacher Attitudes
Sole, Yolanda R. – 1976
Foreign language teaching methodology is confronted with the problem of teaching Spanish to English-dominant native Spanish speakers. Linguistic documentation is lacking to accurately evaluate the linguistic competence of the bilingual student, documentation also useful in the preparation of adequate instructional materials. This paper describes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, College Students
Zierer, Ernesto, Ed. – 1977
This issue contains two articles in Spanish and three in English on the following topics: the practical presentation of English for Special Purposes (ESP) materials in science programs at the National University of Trujillo, "notional syllabus" and "discourse analysis" in relation to ESP materials, extra-linguistic principles in explaining…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Curriculum Guides, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Shuy, Roger W. – 1970
As the field of sociolinguistics has emerged, its terminology, which like many other emerging disciplines contains many neologisms and new usages, has sometimes been called insensitive. This reaction may interfere with serious examination of the field's content. Areas of disagreement or dispute include terms used for the speech of black…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Definitions, English, Language Research