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African American English and the Achievement Gap: The Role of Dialectal Code Switching. Routledge Research in Education
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Craig, Holly K. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate significantly better test scores than their less adaptable…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Barriers
Influences of Social and Style Variables on Adult Usage of African American English Features
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Craig, Holly K.; Grogger, Jeffrey T. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the influences of selected social (gender, employment status, educational achievement level) and style variables (race of examiner, interview topic) on the production of African American English (AAE) by adults. Method: Participants were 50 African American men and women, ages 20-30 years. The authors…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Social Influences, Language Usage, Young Adults
Morphosyntactic Forms of African American English Used by Young Children and Their Caregivers.
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Washington, Julie A; Craig, Holly K. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002
Explores differences between primary caregivers and their young children in dialect use across generations by directly examining dialectal variations apparent during play interactions between African American primary caregivers and their young children. Concludes that there is evidence in these interactions of differences between the child and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Language Usage
African-American English and Linguistic Complexity in Preschool Discourse; A Second Look.
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Craig, Holly K.; Washington, Julie A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
The prepositional phrases used in free play discourse by 45 African American preschoolers from low-income homes were analyzed. A statistically significant positive relationship was found between amounts of African American English (AAE) form use and relational semantic complexity. No significant relationships were found between simpler…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Dialect Studies, Discourse Analysis
Variable Use of African American English across Two Language Sampling Contexts.
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Washington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K.; Kushmaul, Amy J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
This study compared the effect of two language sampling elicitation contexts, free play and picture descriptions, on variability in the use of African American English (AAE) with 65 normally developing African American children (ages 4 to 6) from lower socioeconomic status homes. Picture descriptions elicited more AAE usage overall, a larger set…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Youth, Data Collection, Disadvantaged Youth
Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students from Preschool-5th Grade
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Craig, Holly K.; Washington, Julie A. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005
"Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade" synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade. Their research has characterized significant influences…
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Preschool Children, Black Dialects