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What Do Classroom Teachers of Varying Backgrounds Know about English Spelling?
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Pittman, Ramona T.; Chang, Heesun; Lindner, Amanda; Binks-Cantrell, Emily; Joshi, Malt – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
The ability to encode (spell) is an integral writing skill needed to communicate effectively. The ability to spell, also, enhances decoding as spelling and decoding are reciprocal skills that rely on knowledge of the same subskills. Spelling can also be particularly difficult for students with literacy and phonological-processing difficulties such…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods, English
English in Multilingual South Africa: The Linguistics of Contact and Change. Studies in English Language
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Hickey, Raymond, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2020
South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are spoken by several millions and used by many more in daily life. This situation provides a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics
Language Skills of Bidialectal and Bilingual Children: Considering a Strengths-Based Perspective
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Lee-James, Ryan; Washington, Julie A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2018
This article examines the language and cognitive skills of bidialectal and bilingual children, focusing on African American English bidialectal speakers and Spanish-English bilingual speakers. It contributes to the discussion by considering two themes in the extant literature: (1) linguistic and cognitive strengths can be found in speaking two…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Bilingualism, Children, Black Dialects
Do U Txt? Event-Related Potentials to Semantic Anomalies in Standard and Texted English
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Berger, Natalie I.; Coch, Donna – Brain and Language, 2010
Texted English is a hybrid, technology-based language derived from standard English modified to facilitate ease of communication via instant and text messaging. We compared semantic processing of texted and standard English sentences by recording event-related potentials in a classic semantic incongruity paradigm designed to elicit an N400 effect.…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Sentences, Black Dialects, Semantics
Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire.
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DeBose, Charles E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Black English (BE) and standard English are treated as two different closely related linguistic systems that coexist in African-American linguistics. Focus is on a middle-class female informant who appears to be a balanced bilingual and who offers counter evidence to the claim that BE is spoken mainly by poor and uneducated persons. (13…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
The Twenty-Second LACUS Forum, 1995.
Hoffer, Bates, Ed. – 1996
Forty-five papers on linguistic theory and language research from the annual conference address these topics: aspects of discourse analysis; agreement languages; grammatical relations; syntax; phonology; grammar; contrastive linguistics; second language learning; syntax; quotations; topic management; aphasia; interpersonal communication; laughter;…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Aphasia, Bilingualism, Black Dialects