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Terry, Nicole Patton – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
Relationships among African American English (AAE), linguistic knowledge, and spelling skills were examined in a sample of 92 children in grades one through three whose speech varied in the frequency of morphosyntactic AAE features. Children were separated into groups of high (AAE speakers) and low (standard American English, SAE, speakers) use of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Spelling, Emergent Literacy
Politzer, Robert L.; Lewis, Shirley A. – 1979
A study was undertaken to confirm previous findings on the relation between teacher performance on the "Teacher Test of Black English" (TTBE), certain teaching behaviors (direct correction, establishing a set, and "directly relevant" teaching), and the achievement of Vernacular Black English speaking students. In addition, the study sought to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Educational Research