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The Relationship between Non-Standard Dialect and Academic Achievement.

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Desberg, Peter; And Others – 1976

Social dialect is demonstrated as an important factor in the low performance of Black children on language based academic achievement tests. The dialect measure accounted for a substantial percentage of the variance in reading and spelling while the IQ measure and social attitude accounted for a negligible amount of variance in these areas. The…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies

The Effects of Social Dialect on Auditory Sound Blending and Word Recognition.

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Desberg, Peter; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979

Second-grade Black children who speak Black English (BE) were compared with Black and White age peers who speak Standard English (SE) on auditory sound blending and word recognition tasks presented in both BE and SE form. BE speakers were bidialectal and performed best on SE materials in a school situation. (Author/RD)

Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Black Dialects, Black Students, Code Switching (Language)