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Download full textDeNight, Shawn – 1992
The purpose of this study was to examine whether proofreading a text aloud was more effective than silent proofreading in helping Black English Vernacular (BEV) speaking students to locate and correct dialect features in writing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, 29 11th grade BEV-speakers edited three teacher-produced…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Error Correction, Grade 11, High Schools
Van Sickle, Meta; Blake, Mary – 2000
This project was initiated in response to the science and mathematics language needs of Sea Island students who speak African-American dialects. Research has indicated that there appears to be a relationship between dialect diversity and academic success. In response, the program's goals were to identify students who exhibited dialect/language…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Case Studies, High Schools, Language Research
