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Honna, Nobuyuki – JALT Journal, 1980
Addressing the common misconception that Japan is a mono-ethnic, mono-cultural, and monolingual society, this article focuses on several areas of sociolinguistic concern. It discusses: (1) the bimodalism of the Japanese deaf population between Japanese Sign Language as native language and Japanese Spoken Language as acquired second language; (2)…
Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Deafness, Diglossia
Amoroso, Henry Carmelo, Jr. – 1978
Students from Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, participated in a study to determine their overall reading ability as measured by norm- and criterion-referenced reading tests and to discover the extent to which linguistically related reading difficulties were manifested in their oral and silent reading performance. The Gates-MacGinitie Reading…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Nonstandard Dialects
Burke, Suzanne M.; And Others – 1980
A study was undertaken to determine if the removal of black English dialect as oral reading errors would influence the scores obtained on three oral reading diagnostic tests: the Gray Oral Reading Test, the Gilmore Oral Reading Test, and the Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales. In addition, the study investigated whether there were differences in the…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Skjervold, Christian K.; And Others – 1975
The student booklet presents short case studies illustrating the acculturation unit of the Minneapolis Multi-Ethnic Curriculum Project for secondary schools. It is presented in nine chapters. Chapter I provides background information on immigration and points out ways acculturation takes place. Chapter II, "Barrio Boy," tells of life in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Arabs, Case Studies, Dialects
Low, Anni – 1980
In an effort to comply with bilingual instruction requirements, school districts throughout California will soon be involved in testing vast numbers of children to determine language proficiency and language dominance. Many language tests will require a child to repeat a sentence or a phrase in exactly the same manner that is stated by an examiner…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Comprehension, Dialects
ABDULLA, JAMAL JALAL; MCCARUS, ERNEST N. – 1967
THIS BEGINNING COURSE, DESIGNED FOR THE STUDENT WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE OF LINGUISTICS, FOLLOWS THE AUDIOLINGUAL APPROACH IN TEACHING THE PHONOLOGY, BASIC STRUCTURE, AND VOCABULARY OF THE EDUCATED KURDISH DIALECT OF SULAIMANIA, IRAQ. THE CULTURAL CONTENT OF THE MATERIAL PROVIDES THE STUDENT WITH A GENERAL BACKGROUND OF SULAIMANIAN CULTURE. PART I,…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Background, Dialects
Download full textBOERCKER, MARGUERITE; RAMSEY, WALLACE – 1967
A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ATTENDING AN 8-WEEK HEADSTART PROGRAM DURING THE SUMMER PRIOR TO THE FIRST GRADE ON THE FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF 152 PUPILS IN SCOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY, INDICATED A NEED FOR A CLASSROOM CONTINUATION OF THE EXPERIENCE APPROACH IN READING METHODS. AT THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, THE HEADSTART PUPILS WERE MIXED IN…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Grade 1, Language Experience Approach
ROGERS, JOHN R.; AND OTHERS – 1965
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER OF READING ARE REPORTED BY PARTICIPANTS OF AN INSTITUTE ON THE APPLICATION OF LINGUISTICS TO SPELLING AND READING INSTRUCTION. CHAPTER 1, "PHONEMICS AND ORTHOGRAPHY IN READING INSTRUCTION," TRACES SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PHONEMICS, PHONETICS, PHONICS, ORTHOGRAPHY, AND READING INSTRUCTION.…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Dialects, Grammar, Graphemes
Kuykendall, Carol
The problems encountered in the development of programs for desegregated schools outside of the courts as well as strategies for resolving the difficulties are discussed. The issues are presented within the context of the development of a program that addressed the needs of students who spoke Black Vernacular English in Houston. Problems cited…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Board of Education Policy, Community Problems, Court Role
Hernandez, Luis F. – 1967
A curriculum guide was prepared for the teaching of standard spoken English in the Los Angeles junior high schools. This guide focuses specifically on the language handicaps of Mexican-American students. The lessons were designed for use with accompanying tapes and filmstrips. (See also UD 007702 for parallel program to help Negro students). (NH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Filmstrips, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students
SKINNER, VINCENT P. – 1967
IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT APPALACHIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT ILLITERATES. THEY HAVE A VERY SOPHISTICATED LANGUAGE WITH WHICH THEY COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY. THEIR LANGUAGE SYSTEM, HOWEVER, IS NOT LIKE THE STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH, BUT IS LEARNED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FROM ORAL TRADITION AND HAS CHANGED VERY LITTLE FOR…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Communication Skills, Illiteracy, Language Patterns
OSSER, HARRY
TWENTY HEAD START PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WERE GIVEN THREE LANGUAGE TASKS DESIGNED TO MEASURE THEIR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT--(1) A PRODUCTION TASK REQUIRED THE CHILDREN TO ENGAGE IN FREE SPEECH. THE CHILDREN WERE ASKED TO ANSWER A QUESTION, TO DESCRIBE A SERIES OF PICTURES, AND TO RETELL A STORY. THE FREE SPEECH OF THE CHILDREN IN RESPONSE TO THESE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Language Ability, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Manarino, Priscilla – 1978
The ability of primary grade black students to recover deep structure and the degree to which that ability is affected by socioeconomic status, dialect, word recognition, and the child's management of syntactic structures in oral language (oral syntactic control) were investigated in a study involving 125 second grade students. The Deep Structure…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Deep Structure, Grade 2
Schwartz, Ruth Roth – 1975
The purposes of this study were to identify the attitudes and behavior of teachers in an innercity secondary school toward language in general and nonstandard grammar in particular. Responses of the 18 member English department to a content-specific questionnaire and videotapes of 12 English classes, representing a sample of all grades and tracks…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, English Instruction, Inner City, Language Standardization
Saville-Troike, Muriel – 1973
This report is intended to provide information regarding the bilingual child to persons in early childhood education who are involved with bilingual children. The first section discusses the nature of language. A section on linguistic diversity discusses the origins of dialects, their relative value, speech styles, and code-switching. A section on…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
