The focus of this bibliography is on the use of variations of Standard English--often called "Nonstandard Dialects"--both in and out of the classroom. Black English, often thought to be synonymous with "nonstandard dialect" because of recent attention called to it, is the best known of the nonstandard dialects, although there are various regional…

Through taped interviews, this study investigated the pronunciation of certain consonants in a rural, deep south county in the South Georgia-North Florida area. The informants came from three groups: lower socioeconomic status (LSES) second graders, LSES senior high students, and teachers in the public schools. Some of the findings showed that…

The basic black rhetoric of violence during the 1960s differed little from other American rhetoric of violence in its expressions of values, attitudes, and beliefs. This conclusion is drawn from studying the speeches of five representative black spokesmen for violence: Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, and Bobby…

Concern during the past decade with educational failures of urban Negro children suggested the need for empirical evidence demonstrating whether or not students use identical grammatical and stylistic structures in both speech and writing. Fourteen black, inner city junior high students, all of whom speak "black English," were interviewed for…

In an attempt to demonstrate that the mismatch between the grammatical features of Black dialect and Standard English grammar used in children's reading materials is a source of reading interference, 67 second and third grade Black dialect speaking children each read orally a text written in Black dialect and a parallel text written in Standard…

Drawing upon his own experience as an English Teacher in a secondary school in Tobago (the Caribbean), the author focuses upon the deep problems of identity encountered by black people having to use the white man's language. In using the white man's language, the black is denied his true autonomy and through his educational process within a white…

The information in this guide should help speech and language pathologists and others who are responsible for the assessment of students from the target populations, African Americans and Hmong students in Wisconsin. The guide provides information pertaining to cultural factors influencing learning and language and recommended procedures for…

Although the Ann Arbor decision was based on a very narrow issue, the evidence used by the court in arriving at the decision is significant as a basis for future court actions in other circumstances. (HOD)

Defines and illustrates language techniques used by Black authors writing to and for Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s. Suggests how language and theme barriers of such literature might be overcome in a contemporary integrated oral interpretation classroom. (PD)

When 130 African American college students were asked to rate the likability and desirability as a committee work partner of black-English-speaking, code-switching, or standard-English-speaking voices, they tended to prefer the speaker of standard English. Implications are discussed. (SLD)

Classical African rhetoric contains five elements: a caller and a chorus validating the word; spiritual entities; the word drawn from and relevant to experience; responders; and the spiritual harmony achieved when the other elements are working together. Suggests that Black English contains structural remnants of African discourse. (CJS)

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…

Describes the Linguistic Affirmation Program (LAP), a comprehensive nonstandard language awareness program for students not proficient in Standard American English, that facilitates the acquisition of Standard American English without devaluing students' home language and culture. Notes its six research-based critical instructional approaches.…

Adult education instructors and administrators, who typically are not members of the hip hop generation, often have little knowledge and understanding of rap music (also known as gangsta rap) and hip hop culture, and consequently do not take the black popular cultural phenomenon seriously as it relates to adult education. Adult educators,…

A review of ethnographic research investigated issues associated with regional or dialectal language use, particularly the use of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the special education classroom, and noted the implications for research and classroom practice. Research with speech/language pathologists is under way to develop a…