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Moore-Smith, Mary – 1984
Modern black poetry has emerged as an art form whose viewpoint (theme), style (structure), and language (diction and usage) focus on a particular kind of sensibility and consciousness in conflict with the world in which the poetry moves. The black aesthetic addresses the consciousness of blackness and deplores traditional poetic niceties in favor…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Dialects
Download full textShuy, Roger W. – 1969
A recent study of 30 urban teachers showed that they were not only unable to give a precise description of their students' speech, but had no idea of how to go about making a description. Their ideas on vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation were formed by popular folk-lore rather than linguistic knowledge. Current teacher training programs are…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers
Fasold, Ralph W. – 1972
In recent years a considerable amount of interest has developed in language variability and in the educational problems connected with it. This volume is a report of linguistic research on the variable language behavior in a community of American English speakers, specifically on some aspects of tense marking in Black English. The following topics…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Studies, Dialect Studies, Grammar
COHEN, PAUL; LABOV, WILLIAM – 1967
THIS PAPER WAS SUBMITTED TO THE BUREAU OF CURRICULUM RESEARCH OF THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THEIR USE IN PREPARING A MANUAL FOR LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS IN GRADES 5 TO 12. THE SUGGESTIONS HERE GREW OUT OF THE AUTHORS' ATTEMPTS "TO ISOLATE THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE VERNACULAR USED IN URBAN GHETTOS AND THE…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Contrastive Linguistics, Curriculum Development
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Direct linkShabaya, Judith – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2005
The study used a qualitative approach to examine the development of metacognitive awareness strategies among student writers. The purposes of the study were to determine the indices of metacognitive awareness strategies used by students, the role of preservice teachers, and the relevance of instructional strategies. Participants were preservice…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teachers, Urban Language, Metacognition
Shuy, Roger W. – 1969
In this paper the author provides a brief overview of some of the ways in which recent sociolinguistic research is contributing to our knowledge of language teaching. The focus is on the American urban situation, especially as it relates to poor black children. One of the greatest deterrents to describing such situation has been our lack of tools…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, English Education
Shuy, Roger W. – 1968
This document comprises the final report of the Detroit Dialect Study (see also AL 001 422 and AL 001 419). In order to contrast the speech patterns of various socio-economic groups, the research design included--(1) randomly selecting approximately 700 Detroit residents of four major age groups from an enumerated population providing as few…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Dialect Studies, English Instruction, Ethnic Groups
Smitherman, Geneva – 1986
Speech, language, and composition professionals should take a leadership role in working toward a national public policy on language. The declining rates of literacy and educational achievement in AfroAmerican communities serve as evidence that such a policy is needed. However, the policy would govern language teaching and language use throughout…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, Language, Language Acquisition
Di Pietro, Robert J. – 1970
This paper discusses and compares bidialectalism and various types of bilingualism, and the educational considerations presented by each. Stable bilingualism can result when each language is used by most, if not all, members of the community for different purposes. In a bilingual situation, societal factors are frequently such that no agreement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
Siegel, Florence – 1973
An exploration of issues in language diversity addressing the nature of dialect, features of the dialect, features of black English Vernacular (BEV), linguistic phenomena in the black urban community, theories of the origins of BEV, and its social, economic, and political ramifications suggest that BEV, like other dialects, meets the needs of its…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Native American Educational Services, Inc., Chicago, IL. – 1986
Five papers presented at two academic seminars are collected in this document which deals with the survival of American Indian tribes, focusing on language maintenance, tribal government, and intergovernmental relations. Robert Dumont and David Kaudy note the remarkable way in which the written English word has been incorporated into the core of…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Languages
Labov, William; And Others – 1968
Volume I of this report (AL 001 821) is a general description of the project, background and related research, the methods employed, and a linguistic analysis of the structural differences in grammar and phonology between non-standard Negro English (NNE) and Standard English (SE). Volume II is directed to a wider range of readers and deals with…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Dialects
