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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
Cronnell, Bruce – 1975
The English spelling system and the teaching of English spelling are discussed in relation to students who are learning English as a second (or foreign) language. The systematic nature of English spelling is described and a brief summary is presented of sound-to-spelling correspondences and of other spelling rules. Specific difficulties which may…
Descriptors: Consonants, English, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Mougeon, Raymond; Carroll, Suzanne – 1976
This study examines the usage of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" in the passe compose and pluperfect. The study is primarily based on a sample of French written by agroup of grade 9 Franco-Ontarian pupils from the Sudbury region. The students' written French is shown to include a high proportion of cases where intransitive…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, French, Grammar, Language Instruction
Bradley, Ruth – 1972
The language proficiency of four groups of children, Negro and white, in one southern community, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, is examined. The goals of this study were threefold: (1) to study the development of language patterns in first grade children from these socioeconomic groups; (2) to determine the effectiveness of the Gloria and David…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students
DeVere, Louise A. – 1971
It is the intent of this Master's Thesis to describe the nonstandard morphology and syntax of a representative sample of children in the Norfolk City schools. The description is organized according to the linguistic patterning of nonstandard English features and their social and ethnic distribution. The speech of both white and Negro children is…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Educationally Disadvantaged, Ethnic Distribution
Wolfram, Walt; Christian, Donna – 1976
This description of Appalachian speech, derived from one part of the final report of a research project on Appalachian Dialects, is intended as a reference work for educators, particularly reading specialists, English teachers, language arts specialists, and speech pathologists. Chapters deal with the following main topics: (1) a sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
