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Direct linkJohnson, Eric J. – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to outline the misguided underpinnings of the "word gap" concept promoted by Hart and Risley (1995). This concept posits that a "30 million word gap" between children of poverty and those from affluent households accounts for widespread academic disparities. Based on this premise, there has been a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Poverty, Vocabulary Skills, Social Differences
Oetting, Janna B.; Newkirk, Brandi L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. "that", "who", "which", "what", "where", [image omitted]) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Nouns, Linguistics, North American English
Peer reviewedRodekohr, Rachel K.; Haynes, William O. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001
A study divided 40 children (age 7) into groups consisting of white normal language and language impaired and African American normal language and language impaired. African American English speakers with normal language scored significantly lower on the Test of Language Development-2P compared to white normal-language subjects, but did not differ…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences
Horton-Ikard, RaMonda – Zero to Three (J), 2006
Effective intervention for early language delay in minority and poor children is difficult to provide because we know so little about its prevention, assessment, and treatment. This article provides an overview of an "integrative model of minority child development" that considers the influence of social factors such as race and class to explore…
Descriptors: African American Children, Delayed Speech, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
