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Livesey, Paul, Ed.; Verma, Mahenra K., Ed. – 1989
The 25 selected papers contained in this volume reflect the current diversity of interests and research methods within the field of sociolinguistics. Titles include: "What is a Language?"; "The Unreality of Quantitative Figures"; "Addressee-Oriented Features in Spoken Discourse"; "Women's Speech, Women's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Education, Black Dialects, Chronological Age
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the language in a Spanish bilingual reading classroom; (2) the early stages of language acquisition of black children; (3) the dependency relation between oral…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Spolsky, Bernard, Ed. – 1972
This volume on the language education of minority children is divided into three sections: (1) Multilingualism in the United States, (2) Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, and (3) Language Education in Practice. Following an introductory essay, "The Language Education of Minority Children," by Bernard Spolsky, the articles in the first section…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Black Dialects
Siegel, Florence – 1973
An exploration of issues in language diversity addressing the nature of dialect, features of the dialect, features of black English Vernacular (BEV), linguistic phenomena in the black urban community, theories of the origins of BEV, and its social, economic, and political ramifications suggest that BEV, like other dialects, meets the needs of its…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language), Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Abrahams, Roger D. – 1970
An awareness of the culture and social structure of the lower class Black American community is crucial for understanding "Black English," and therefore is vital for those engaged in educating Black Americans. An in-group means of communication and expression of group solidarity, Black English does not however represent a single code, but rather,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Attitudes, Black Community, Black Culture
Ward, Ben, Ed. – American Language Review, 2001
These eight journals include articles on such topics as the following: adult literacy; incorporating song lyrics and music into the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom; using poetry with adult ESL learners; reading "Time" and "Newsweek" in ESL classrooms; teaching intuitively; teacher-created materials; New England…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Business English
Schwinge, Diana, Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
This issue has four articles. Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo and Teresa Pica in "Is the EFL Environment a Language Learning Environment?" address the question of whether the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom is an environment that promotes input, feedback, and the production of output that is necessary for successful second…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Dialogs (Language)
Campbell, Elizabeth Dianne – 1994
In a practicum study, 21 students in a speech and debate class were encouraged to discuss openly the roles of Black English (BE) and Standard English (SE), use both freely in the classroom, and engage in speaking situations in the classroom and forensic tournaments to develop confidence and proficiency in their speaking abilities. The objective…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Black Dialects, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language)
Butler, Frances A.; And Others – 1992
In the first report, dated August 1991, assessment of three language tests is reported. The tests were developed and are used as part of a Los Angeles Unified School District (California) program to teach mainstream American English (MAE) to speakers of African American Language (AAL). The tests include a writing assessment (grades 3-6) and two…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Black Dialects, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Crew, Louie – 1987
A university professor and director of a writing program found many examples of what he terms "colonialism" during his thirty years of teaching experiences in countries around the world. One such example was a former pupil in Hong Kong struggling to make her students memorize a poem called "London Snow" ("snow" is an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Colonialism, Cultural Awareness
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) a teacher training packet for fifth and sixth grade reading teachers, (2) the relationship of intellectual and nonintellectual variables to performance on the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Dialects, Content Area Reading
Fine, Marlene G.; Anderson, Carolyn – 1978
This study describes the syntactic features of Black English Vernacular (BEV) spoken by black characters in three black situation comedies on American television: "The Jeffersons,""Good Times," and "What's Happening." Using scripts and audio tapes of three episodes from each series during the 1977-78 television season, transcripts were made of…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Blacks, Commercial Television
Hale, Janice – 1980
Debate about the relative influence of class and of race on the condition of blacks in the United States is relevant to the issue of the educational achievement of black youth. Neither race nor class, but culture is most likely to affect black children's behavior in schools and, as well, the school's response to black children. The emphasis blacks…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, Black Culture, Black Dialects
Mackey, William F., Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. – 1977
This book consists of the 29 papers presented at the Conference on Child Language co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Chicago in November of 1971. The subject of the conference was restricted to the learning of two or more languages or dialects by young children,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Child Language
Baratz, Joan C., Ed.; Shuy, Roger W., Ed. – 1969
This fourth book in the Urban Language Series is concerned with the relationship of language to reading. Literacy must be based on the language the child actually uses. In the case of ghetto children, materials in their dialect must be prepared so that their task of associating sounds and words with written symbols is not complicated by lack of…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Youth
