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Harris, Ovetta; And Others – Linguistics and Education, 1995
This bibliography contains 103 references to scholarship on Africanized English and related educational scholarship published since 1985 and includes articles published in scholarly journals, books, and chapters from edited volumes. (MDM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Books, Educational Policy, English

Wells, Melvin W. – Reading Horizons, 1976
Finds that words written in dialect are difficult for black students to comprehend while reading silently, which does not agree with previously advanced hypotheses by other researchers. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Books, Childrens Literature, Grade 6
Becker, Carol Rose Sciuto – 1974
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the awareness and application of Black English features by writers and producers of materials for young children which represent black characters in a fictive setting. The study was limited to materials which were available to inner city children in Cleveland, Ohio, through libraries. Fifty-three fiction…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Stereotypes, Books, Childrens Literature