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DeStefano, Johanna S. – Elementary English, 1972
Report of research findings on productive language differences in beginning fifth grade Black children living in Philadelphia, as evidenced by their use of nonstandard syntactic forms in both speech and writing. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 5
Download full textDeStefano, Johanna S. – 1972
Registers--language varieties set apart from other varieties by the social circumstances of their use--are linguistic universals operating in all speech communities. Ghetto black children learn to control registers pertinent to the domain of family and neighborhood--most of which are spoken in their vernacular. Ghetto children are also expected to…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Grade 1, Grade 3
