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Direct linkBrown, Dana Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The achievement gap between African American students and their Caucasian peers is a problem that has persisted within the educational system since the early 1970s. Researchers have been investigating whether differences in oral language, such as, Nonmainstream American English (NMAE) use contribute to this gap. There is also concern from…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology, African American Students, Achievement Gap
Brittany Lashone Frieson – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation examined the ways in which African American Language (AAL) speakers utilized AAL in various discursive contexts in an elementary two-way immersion (TWI) Spanish/English dual-language program. In this study, I problematize the notion of TWI programs as an additive program for AAL speakers by investigating the phenomenon from three…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Bilingual Education, Spanish
Brandynne Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2019
African-American students continue to lag behind White peers in nationwide test scores, in part due to deficits in literacy skills which may be connected to use of African American English (AAE) in the school setting. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between exposure to varying levels of mainstream American English (MAE)…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Suh, Rita – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this case study was to explore first and second grade teachers' knowledge and perceptions of African American Language (AAL) and its speakers, as well as implementation of instructional practices for supporting African American students whose first language is AAL, a form of Ebonics, in acquiring proficiency in SAE and accessing the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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
Conlin, Catherine Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The evidence of a general achievement gap, and more specifically, a reading gap between African American students and White students is a well documented and alarming phenomenon (Chatterji, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2004, 2007; Darling-Hammond, Holtzman, Gatlin & Heilig, 2005; Fishback & Baskin, 1991; Jencks & Phillips, 1998; Haycock, 2001;…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, African American Children, Test Bias
