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McPhail, Irving P. – 1975
This study investigated the effect of a linguistically based coaching program (with special attention given to the syntactic and semantic requirements of standardized language arts achievement tests) on the performance of selected black high school students on objective tests. The five subjects, one male and four female, were high school juniors…
Descriptors: Black Students, Interference (Language), Language Arts, Linguistics