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Bachman, James K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1970
Describes the procedures used in a study designed to examine differences in nonstandard grammatical usage among and between Negro and white working-class informants in the community of Alexandria, Virginia. (Author/FB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Black Students, Field Studies
Richardson, Elaine – 1995
A study focused attention on the academic personas acquired by two AAVE-oriented (African American Vernacular English) beginning writers as reflected by their speech in informal settings and the style they employed in academic tasks. The study explores the degree to which literacy experiences (home and school) affect students' lives. It was guided…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Afrocentrism, Basic Writing, Black Culture