Descriptor
| Speech Evaluation | 9 |
| Teacher Attitudes | 6 |
| Culture Conflict | 4 |
| Discourse Analysis | 4 |
| Educational Research | 4 |
| Ethnic Stereotypes | 4 |
| Rating Scales | 4 |
| Speech | 4 |
| Ethnic Grouping | 3 |
| Mexican Americans | 3 |
| Predictive Validity | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Author
| Williams, Frederick | 9 |
| Hopper, Robert | 1 |
| Natalicio, Diana S. | 1 |
| Wood, Barbara Sundene | 1 |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Williams, Frederick; And Others – Speech Teacher, 1971
The authors discuss a series of studies in which the main concern is with how, or if, teachers have particular attitudes about the language of school children. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics, Speech Evaluation
Download full textWilliams, Frederick; And Others – 1971
This research was a series of experiments focused upon teachers' evaluations of videotaped samples of children's speech. The theoretical framework drew mainly from current ideas about dialect features and the associations with social stereotypes which they appear to prompt in listeners. The practical focus was how this process relates to teachers'…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Skills, Speech Evaluation, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewedWilliams, Frederick; Wood, Barbara Sundene – Language and Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Black Youth, Females, Junior High School Students, Language Acquisition
Williams, Frederick; And Others – 1970
In this study, the judgmental ratings that 15 teacher-subjects made of the two-factors of "confidence-eagerness" and "ethnicity-nonstandardness" in children's speech are compared to their presumptions of the speech behavior expected from children from certain ethnic and social status groups. In a pre- and post-test experiment…
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Ethnic Stereotypes
Hopper, Robert; Williams, Frederick – Speech Monographs, 1973
Employers' attitudes toward employees' speech affects hiring. (CH)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Interviews, Employment Potential
Williams, Frederick; And Others – 1970
The purpose of this study was to test the implication that ethnic stereotyping may bias a teacher's perception of a child's speech. The subjects, 44 undergraduate education majors, were asked to view three 90-second segments of video tape showing fifth and sixth grade boys from three ethnic groups--Black, Mexican-American, and Anglo--and were…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Culture Conflict, Discourse Analysis
Williams, Frederick; And Others – 1970
The aim of this study was to assess the length of latencies or reaction times that it took for 15 teachers and prospective teachers to judge the degree of "ethnic-nonstandardness" or "confidence-eagerness" in a child's speech. A set of 2-minute video-tapes made from interviews with six 11 and 12 year old boys from six ethno-status groups--Black…
Descriptors: Culture Conflict, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Ethnic Grouping
Williams, Frederick; And Others – 1970
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the two judgmental factors of "confidence-eagerness" and "ethnicity-nonstandardness" (previously identified from teachers' semantic differential evaluations of audio-taped samples of children's speech) would still be found when samples were presented in an audiovisual mode and whether these…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Cultural Background, Culture Conflict
Natalicio, Diana S.; Williams, Frederick – 1971
The aim of this study is to assess the degree to which sentence imitations of Negro and Mexican-American children (grades K-2) could be used as a basis for language evaluation. Tapes of 10 Negro and 10 Mexican-American children who had responded to a set of commercially available test materials were evaluated by panels of experts. Evaluations for…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Language, English, Ethnic Groups
