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Peer reviewedAdger, Carolyn Temple; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article offers special educators suggestions for using the natural occurrence of multiple dialects in the school and community as a means to teach children about the nature of language in society, increase their language awareness, learn about dialects, and learn standard English as a second dialect if necessary. (DB)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Dialects, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textAdger, Carolyn – 1994
In response to the problem of high rates of referral of black students to special education and related services due to their use of non-standard English (African American Vernacular English, AAVE), a project was undertaken to assess and address the issue in Baltimore (Maryland) public schools' special education services. An ethnographic study of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Delivery Systems
Local, J. K., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
These 14 articles on aspects of linguistics include the following: "Economy and Optionality: Interpretations of Subjects in Italian" (David Adger); "Collaborative Repair in EFL Classroom Talk" (Zara Iles); "A Timing Model for Fast French" (Eric Keller, Brigitte Zellner); "Another Travesty of Representation:…
Descriptors: African Languages, Articulation (Speech), Autism, Black Dialects
