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Dyson, Anne Haas; Smitherman, Geneva – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background: Both academic research and educational policy have focused on the diverse language resources of young schoolchildren. African American Language (AAL) in particular has a rich history of scholarship that both documents its historical evolution and sociolinguistic complexity and reveals the persistent lack of knowledge about AAL in our…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Urban Schools, Childrens Writing, Stereotypes

Norris, R. A. – Urban Education, 1971
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Experimental Curriculum
Seymour, Dorothy Z. – Commonweal, 1971
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Nonstandard Dialects

Tolliver-Weddington, Gloria – Journal of Black Studies, 1979
In this article, the terms "Ebonics" and "Mainstream American English" are defined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Education, Language Variation

Filmer, Alice Ashton – World Englishes, 2003
Critically examines assumptions in teaching in a bi-dialectal context. Presents ethnographic data from one teacher's experience teaching a summer course in Shakespearean theater in which the students were speakers of African-American English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Ethnography, Language Variation
Kohler, Candida T.; Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Bryant, Judith Becker; Apel, Kenn; Wilkinson, Louise C. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To evaluate the role of dialect on phonemic awareness and nonword spelling tasks. These tasks were selected for their reliance on phonological and orthographic processing, which may be influenced by dialect use. Method: Eighty typically developing African American children in Grades 1 and 3 were first screened for dialect use and then…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, North American English, Spelling, Phonemic Awareness
Bonn, Marta – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
The concept of "Ubuntu" has recently received a lot of attention in spite of the fact that there is no consensus about its meaning. African scholars have strived to attain a common meaning and English translation, and while they agree that it is typically and solely African, the closest some have come up with is "African humanism". A South African…
Descriptors: Urbanization, Content Analysis, Cultural Maintenance, Humanism
Carlson, Holly K.; McHenry, Monica A. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2006
This study was designed to determine how ethnicity, the amount of perceived accent or dialect, and comprehensibility affect a speaker's employability. Sixty human resource specialists judged 3 female potential applicants. The applicants represented speakers of Spanish-influenced English, Asian-influenced English, and African American Vernacular…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Human Resources, Ethnicity, Black Dialects

Jones-Jackson, Patricia – Journal of Black Studies, 1983
Describes major features of pronoun usage, verbs, and nouns in contemporary Gullah. Points out that most research on Black dialects has focused on northern inner city Black speech, and that this variety of Black English is different from the creole-based language patterns prevalent among Blacks in the southeastern United States. (GC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Geographic Regions, Gullah, Language Patterns

De Klerk, Vivian – World Englishes, 1999
Explores problems involved in defining Black South African English, such as whether it is a new variety of English or a dialect and relating to whose English it is: the English of those learners who have encountered only a smattering of English in informal contexts or the variety of English acquired during formal schooling. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, English, Foreign Countries, Language Variation

Rickford, John R. – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1999
Discusses the role that Sociolinguistics should play with respect to the Ebonics debate in the United States. Argues that the fundamental perspective Sociolinguistics has taken with respect to this issue is sound, namely that Ebonics like any other linguistic variety is just as rule-governed and systematic. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Policy, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
Gayles, Jonathan; Denerville, Daphney – Multicultural Education, 2007
Since the Oakland Unified School District passed its resolution on Ebonics in 1998, Ebonics has been a lightning rod for controversy of all sorts. The utilitarian intent of the original resolution was lost as the debate of Ebonics became intensely political and, to a great extent, marred by existing patterns of racial hierarchy and stigmatization.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Higher Education
Conlin, Catherine Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The evidence of a general achievement gap, and more specifically, a reading gap between African American students and White students is a well documented and alarming phenomenon (Chatterji, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2004, 2007; Darling-Hammond, Holtzman, Gatlin & Heilig, 2005; Fishback & Baskin, 1991; Jencks & Phillips, 1998; Haycock, 2001;…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, African American Children, Test Bias

Cato, Carl A. – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
A variety of views on the legitimacy of Black English are discussed in terms of how it affects its users, especially in educational settings. (EH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Dialects, Language Usage, Nonstandard Dialects
Wolfram, Walter A. – 1969
Although different philosophical and methodological approaches underlying materials for teaching Standard English (SE) to Black English (BE) speakers have now received some attention, one aspect of methodology for which there is no specific discussion is the order in which SE features should be presented. The author suggests and discusses five…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Material Development, Nonstandard Dialects, Sociolinguistics