Suggests postponing teaching negatives to Black English speakers until they have achieved a formal control of the Standard English auxiliary system and the tense/aspect distinctions which are indicated by it. Sample exercises given. Appears in special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education of "The…

The government of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea is fully committed to education at the primary through the tertiary levels. The main thrust in adult literacy work is coming from the Summer Institute of Linguistics and various Christian mission groups. The work is hampered by a lack of national awareness, prevalence of disease, high costs,…

Describes efficient spelling instruction as that which makes maximum use of the fact that part of our competence as speakers of English is our knowledge of underlying phonological forms." (Author/SW)

Despite evidence which disproves the idea that some languages and language varieties are defective for logical thought or intellectual expressiveness, there are still language policies and social programs in operation which are based on these and other discredited assumptions. (Author/GC)

Discusses the factors that led to linguists being able to present effective testimony in the form of an unified view on the origins and structural characteristics of the Black English vernacular at the Ann Arbor trial. (EKN)

Demonstrates how the speech and writings of Blacks living in the United States and abroad reflect a holistic cognitive style. (DA)

Examines the use of religious vocabulary as curse words among French speakers in Quebec. (AM)

Presents a phonetic analysis of the diphthongs found in the French of Mauricie, Quebec. (AM)

Reviews the debate between Herskovits, Turner, and Johnson on Africanisms in Gullah. Suggests that Whinnom's approach, which considers pidgins and creoles under the rubric of "linguistic hybridization," is a more appropriate model with which to view Gullah, making irrelevant the question of whether it is an African or European language.…

Reviews recent studies dealing with the question of whether students' dialects interfere with their ability to read. Suggests three specific actions that educators concerned with reading instruction might take in order to enhance the quality of reading instruction for students with nonstandard dialects. (FL)

Teachers aware of the value of each child's language can do much to prevent initial reading difficulties among those who speak nonstandard dialects. (DD)

Verbal elements in Cairene Arabic are investigated in the light of two opposing hypotheses, one stating that the elements constitute a unit, the other stating that each element is an independent predicate. (AM)

Examines perceptions of dialect along the Texas-Mexico border, where researchers have found many similarities between the Spanish dialects spoken on the Mexican and the American sides of the national boundary. Looks at social change along the border, and discusses results of a dialect perception survey. (Author/VWL)

Analyzes various apparently synonymous words for "friend" (e.g., "homes,""bro") as they are used by one former gang-member to persuade two current gang-members to stop "gangbanging." The article's analysis shows how the meanings of these disparate reference terms are made and remade through talk as…