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Peer reviewedBall, Arnetha F. – Linguistics and Education, 1995
Reports on a two-part study of second-grade African American students' uses of various forms of the /-s/ suffix, replicating J. Torrey's 1972 study on the correlation of language and educational achievement. Findings suggest the need to reflect diversity and flexibility in design and implementation of assessment and instruction materials and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
