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Direct linkPeele-Eady, Tryphenia B.; Foster, Michèle L. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
Despite the substantive body of research on African American Language (AAL), designating it a meaningful, rule-governed language system and the first language of many African Americans, schools in the US have systematically failed to integrate a language policy related to African American English learners (AAELs). In this article, we employ a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Native Language, Language Planning
Download full textPaley, Karen Surman – 2001
The "Ebonics Resolution" was passed by the Oakland, California, school board in 1996. The proposal called for "imparting instruction to African-American students for the combined purposes of maintaining legitimacy and richness of such language...and to facilitate their acquisition and mastery of English language skills." The…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Language Usage, Practicums
Peer reviewedSeymour, Harry N.; Abdulkarim, Lamya; Johnson, Valerie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1999
Examines the reasons and myths surrounding the Ebonics controversy, which concerns the use of the English dialect spoken by many African-American children in Oakland, California, schools as a strategy for teaching Standard American English. Implications for diagnosing and educating special-education students whose primary dialect is Ebonics are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
