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Connor, Carol McDonald; Craig, Holly K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study examined the relation between African American preschoolers' use of African American English (AAE) and their language and emergent literacy skills in an effort to better understand the perplexing and persistent difficulties many African American children experience learning to read proficiently. Method: African American…
Descriptors: North American English, Vocabulary Skills, Phonology, African American Children
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Savage, Robert; Blair, Rebecca; Rvachew, Susan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
This article explores young children's facility in phonological awareness tasks requiring either the detection or the articulation of head, coda, onset, and rime subsyllabic units shared in word pairs. Data are reported from 70 nonreading children and 21 precocious readers attending preschools. Prereading children were able to articulate shared…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Skills, Preschool Children, Articulation (Speech)