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Brandi Lynette Newkirk – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study's purpose was to examine the acquisition and use of BE, DO, and modal auxiliaries by African American English (AAE)-speaking children. The impetus for this work was the lack of information regarding the developmental trajectory of these auxiliary types and their use, in AAE relative to what is known about auxiliary acquisition and use…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Black Dialects, Young Children
Wider, Elizabeth Joy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative correlational study examines the role of African American English (AAE) and literacy for Black American students who speak AAE. No previous research regarding Black American students who speak AAE has set out to determine whether or not viewing Black students who speak AAE as English second language learners (L2) would improve…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Literacy Education, Second Language Learning
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