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Download full textPolitzer, Robert L.; Brown, Dwight – 1973
As part of the development of a battery of tests to determine proficiency in black standard and nonstandard speech, the authors developed a two-part test consisting of 20 items designed to evoke a response by means of verbal and pictorial cues. Each cue was supposed to elicit a specific grammatical construction characteristic of either black…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Dialects, Black Students, Elementary School Students
Politzer, Robert L.; Hoover, Mary Rhodes – 1972
The experiment reported on in this paper investigated primarily the overall effectiveness in raising the language achievement of black children of the pattern practice approach and the use of overall contrasts between standard and nonstandard dialects within the pattern practice approach. The experiment was conducted in three third-grade and three…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Concept Teaching, Elementary School Students
