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Alatis, James E., Ed.; Hamilton, Heidi E., Ed.; Tan, Ai-Hui, Ed. – 2000
This volume contains the published version of selected papers from the 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). Plenary speeches include the following: "The Talk of Learning Professional Work" (Shirley Brice Heath); "Linguistics, Education, and the Ebonics Firestorm" (John R. Rickford);…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Applied Linguistics, Bilingual Students, Black Dialects
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as "delayed immersion." This report focuses on the first major…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project, a 3-year project that followed a 1985 pilot study, examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue of Sepedi to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Change Strategies
