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Schachter, Rachel E.; Craig, Holly K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study examined child production of narrative features and of African American English (AAE) during a wordless storybook oral narrative task. Method: Participants were 30 AAE-speaking African American kindergarten and 1st grade students from low- and mid-socioeconomic status homes. Story grammar (SG), story literary technique (SLT),…
Descriptors: African American Students, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Craig, Holly K.; Kolenic, Giselle E.; Hensel, Stephanie L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this longitudinal study was twofold: to examine shifting from African American English (AAE) to mainstream American English (MAE) across the early elementary grades, when students are first exposed to formal instruction in reading; and to examine how metalinguistic and cognitive variables influenced the students' dialectal…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, English, Standard Spoken Usage