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Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Adlof, Suzanne M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: We compared outcomes from 2 measures of language ability in children who displayed a range of dialect variation: 1 using features that do not contrast between mainstream American English (MAE) and nonmainstream dialects (NMAE), and 1 using contrastive features. We investigated how modified scoring procedures affected the diagnostic…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Children, Dialects, Grade 2
Lindsay Meyer Turner – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the years, less attention is given to students' spelling skills compared to other areas of literacy achievement like word reading and passage comprehension in relationship to nonmainstream dialect usage. Considering that English spelling is based on the phonological and morphological structures of Mainstream American English (MAE), it is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Black Dialects, Spelling, Grade 1