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Speidel, Gisela E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Describes a study which addressed three questions: (1) Do Hawaiian-English children have the same general ability to understand connected discourse as their standard English-speaking peers? (2) Do they have more difficulty understanding standard English than their own dialect? and (3) Can they more easily understand standard English by making…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialect Studies, English, Hawaiians