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Baghban, Marcia – 1982
The children of Appalachia, a region characterized by a strong oral tradition, are constantly defining their roles in their society through language. In so doing they are contributing to the maintenance of the patterns of life in that society. Children observe the functional uses of story at a very early age, and narratives emphasize group…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture
Download full textPepinsky, Harold B.; And Others – 1980
This study is an examination of the interactional language of a teacher from United States mainstream culture and three male students, one each from Appalachian culture, black inner-city culture, and mainstream culture, during first grade literacy instruction. In this cultures-in-contact situation provided in an urban school in the northeastern…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Black Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Language Acquisition
Hancock, Ian F. – 1975
Romanes is the collective name for dialects spoken by over six million Rom throughout the world. It is felt that a standard language is an essential factor for the attainment of a united future and the possible creation of the Gypsy state of Romanestan. This paper deals with some of the problems involved in creating such a unified and standardized…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
Meyers, Lewis – 1981
A student's belief in the value of literacy is essential to effective teaching and successful learning, but can result only from a local culture whose aim is to produce literacy. The social identity and cultural norms of the young are registered in their use of language, and if literacy, as defined by others, calls the norms and identity into…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Black Dialects, Classroom Environment, Cultural Context
White, Sheila J., Ed.; Teller, Virginia, Ed. – 1984
That the attainment of literacy does not represent a unitary process or a unitary set of skills is reflected in this collection of papers from a variety of disciplines showing concerns about reading problems. Following an introduction by Sheila White, the first half of the book contains the following articles: "The Practice of Literacy: Where Mind…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Usage, Language Variation
Ubadigbo, Fidelis N. – 1996
This paper describes cultural and educational characteristics of West African countries that may have implications for West Africans studying and learning English in the United States. Countries discussed include Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Benin, Niger, Gambia, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mali. The structures of the systems of elementary,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
