Explores how a speech variety close to oratorical standard English is learned in one Afro-American peasant community in the West Indies. Material gathered during two field trips, one supported by a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and the other by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)

Study concluded that use of Negro dialect or standard English made no significant difference in ability to answer literal questions; sex and level of readiness did. (Author/MB)

Originally appeared in Workpapers: Teaching English as a Second Language," Volume 5 (June 1971), Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles, California. (VM)

Article based on research supported by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)

Based in part on a presentation at the Conference on Symbolic Processes in Akron, Ohio, October 1970. (VM)

Black English-Negro Nonstandard English, or Negro dialect,"-although perhaps represented by less divergent varieties in the Northern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is here shown to have been there all along. (JM)

Illustrates the difficulty encountered when disadvantaged black children are taught reading by conventional methods--by identifying some conflict points between nonstandard Negro dialect and Standard English. These cause no problem if they are simply disregarded in the teaching of reading. (JM)

Takes issue with the widely-held notion that urban black children are verbally deprived. Slightly revised version of a paper presented, in part, at the Georgetown University 20th Round Table, Washington, D.C., March 1969. Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue, "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)

Based on author's doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin. (Editor)