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Perryman-Clark, Staci M. – College Composition and Communication, 2013
For the past few decades, composition researchers have devoted critical attention to studying the ways that African American students employ Africanized linguistic and rhetorical patterns successfully in expository writing situations. More recently, research has focused on the use of African-based rhetorical patterns, since the use of African…
Descriptors: African American Students, Writing Assignments, Language Patterns, Black Dialects
Pruitt, Sonja L.; Oetting, Janna B.; Hegarty, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: In this study, the authors examined the linguistic profile of African American English (AAE)-speaking children reared in poverty by focusing on their marking of passive participles and by comparing the results with the authors' previous study of homophonous forms of past tense (S. Pruitt & J. Oetting, 2009). Method: The data were from 45…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Young Children, Poverty, Form Classes (Languages)
Perryman-Clark, Staci M. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The relationship between cultural diversity, linguistic diversity, and composition has been a topic that has received much attention in rhetoric and composition's disciplinary conversations, even if current pedagogical practices used to address these matters lag behind in progress. In this essay, the author focuses on how to address linguistic…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Teaching Methods, Black Dialects, Rhetoric
Hallett, Jill – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
This research examines students' use of African American English (AAE) in classrooms with varying levels of procedural and substantive engagement. In this study, classroom context is examined for type of engagement, turn length, and teacher response to student AAE use. Student AAE use is analyzed by ethnicity, gender, and teacher, and by features…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Trotman Scott, Michelle; Moss-Bouldin, Shondrika – Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Teachers who are not considered to be culturally competent may misinterpret many characteristics exhibited by African American students. They may be unaware of the African American linguistic practices and characteristics and they may also be unfamiliar with research conducted by scholars such as Zora Neale Hurston and A. Wade Boykin. This lack of…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Cultural Awareness, African American Students, African American Culture
Blackburn, Judith F. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2012
This study assessed whether instruction in African American English (AAE) phonological and grammatical rules improved speech-language pathology students' knowledge of AAE features. Students were also instructed in the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association's (ASHA's) position on nonstandard American English (non-SAE) dialects, which…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Grammar, Speech Language Pathology, North American English
Terry, Nicole Patton; Mills, Monique T.; Bingham, Gary E.; Mansour, Souraya; Marencin, Nancy – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2013
Purpose: This study had 4 primary purposes: (a) to describe the oral narrative performance of typically developing African American prekindergarten children with commonly used macro- and microstructure measures; (b) to examine the concurrent and (c) predictive relations between narrative performance, spoken dialect use, vocabulary, and story…
Descriptors: African American Students, Preschool Children, Language Usage, Black Dialects
Garrity, April W.; Oetting, Janna B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2010
Purpose: To examine 3 forms ("am," "is," "are") of auxiliary BE production by African American English (AAE)-speaking children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Thirty AAE speakers participated: 10 six-year-olds with SLI, 10 age-matched controls, and 10 language-matched controls. BE production was examined through…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, Language Impairments, Verbs
Lazar, Althier M.; Edwards, Patricia A.; McMillon, Gwendolyn Thompson – Teachers College Press, 2012
"Bridging Literacy and Equity" synthesizes the essential research and practice of social equity literacy teaching in one succinct, user-friendly volume. Extraordinary K-12 teachers show us what social equity literacy teaching looks like and how it advances children's achievement. Chapters identify six key dimensions of social equity teaching that…
Descriptors: Literacy, Equal Education, Social Justice, Academic Achievement
Chesley, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2011
How do new words become established in a speech community? This dissertation documents linguistic, cognitive, and social factors that are hypothesized to affect "lexical entrenchment," the extent to which a new word becomes part of the lexicon of a speech community. First, in a longitudinal corpus study, I find that linguistic properties such as…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Linguistics, Vocabulary, Cultural Context
Vetter, Amy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how a White teacher (Gina) responded to African American Language (AAL) in ways that situated students as valuable members of a high school English classroom. This 5-month qualitative study in a 10th grade classroom drew from positioning theory and discourse analysis to make sense of classroom interactions…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Whites, Physical Characteristics
Grogger, Jeffrey – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
Speech patterns differ substantially between whites and many African Americans. I collect and analyze speech data to understand the role that speech may play in explaining racial wage differences. Among blacks, speech patterns are highly correlated with measures of skill such as schooling and AFQT scores. They are also highly correlated with the…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Speech, African Americans, Whites
Oetting, Janna B.; Newkirk, Brandi L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We examined children's productions of mainstream and non-mainstream relative clause markers (e.g. "that", "who", "which", "what", "where", [image omitted]) in African American English (AAE) and Southern White English (SWE) as a function of three linguistic variables (syntactic role of the marker,…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Nouns, Linguistics, North American English
Petrucci, Peter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2012
When films rich in cinematic discourse are translated, "character equivalence", the extent to which translated dialogue distorts identities in the original film, may pose a special challenge for the screen translator. This article discusses this issue in the context of "Talk to me" (Lemmons 2007), a film which showcases…
Descriptors: Films, Translation, Black Dialects, African Americans
Pittman, Ramona T.; Joshi, R. Malatesha; Carreker, Suzanne – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
The purpose of this eight week study was to provide explicit instruction to improve spelling to 124 sixth grade students who are speakers of African American English (AAE). Two classroom teachers taught 14 different language arts class sections. The research design was a pretest/posttest/posttest design using wait-list-control. The treatment group…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Dialects, African American Culture, Grade 6