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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"AAVE"”.
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University of Toledo Students' Reaction to African American Vernacular Features: Do Phonological Features Matter?
… of speakers with varying degrees of AAVE phonological features. Six females were selected who exhibit varying degrees of AAVE (two “strong” AAVE speakers, two “moderate” AAVE speakers, and two SAE speakers). All speakers recorded a brief definition of achievement motivation. …
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Illinois Secondary Principals' Perceptions and Expectations Concerning Students Who Use African American Vernacular English in an Academic Setting
… (1997) and codes the principals’ perceptions of AAVE in a histogram. Principals’ demographic information was gathered on the following categories: race, gender, home language, county location, childhood hometown community, age, years in education, years as a teacher, years in administration, …
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Improving spelling ability among speakers of African American vernacular English: an intervention based on phonological, morphological, and orthographic principles
… (AE). African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is considered a deviation from AE, with its own sound system. AAVE is the most widely used form of dialect in the United States. Many students who speak AAVE may have difficulties in producing the correct spelling of AE words. The overall …
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A test of the effects of linguistic stereotypes in children's animated film: A language attitude study.
… (MUSE), African American Vernacular English (AAVE), French, British, and Arabic. Respondents judged speakers' personality traits (Work Ethic, Wealth, Attitude, Intelligence), assigned jobs/life positions, and provided personal information, movie watching habits, and exposure to foreign …
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Present tense marking as a synopsis of Southern American English: Plural verbal -s and zero 3rd singular.
… in both African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and early Southern White English (SWE), and (3) there were different grammatical constraints on its use in AAVE and SWE. Data for zero 3rd singular -s suggest this form (1) did not have a British source and (2) that it has historically been an …
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It's how they be talking : a qualitative case study about the pedagogical strategies used in the classrooms of African American Vernacular English-speaking students.
… understand African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Because of this, they often lack knowledge on how to connect linguistically with students who speak AAVE to promote a sense of belonging and academic growth (Harris & Schroeder, 2013; Mallinson & Hudley, 2011). This study explored four …
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Non-cognitive factors in second language acquisition and language variety: a single case study of a Saudi male English for academic purposes student in the United States
… this case African American Vernacular English (AAVE) (Perryman-Clark, 2013). Non-cognitive factors are examined, and Stephen Krashen's Monitor Theory is suggested as a possible lens through which teachers could examine learners' language choice. Through interview and informal discussions with …
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A Marshland of Ethnolinguistic Boundaries: Conflicting Past and Present BE Paradigms in Coastal Carolina Speech.
… At the same time, I also hypothesize that AAVE in Hyde County is moving away from that local dialect identity towards a more uniform AAVE norm as part of the larger cultural reorientation of African American identity that evolved coterminous with the Civil Rights movement and school …
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Teachers' attitudes toward African American vernacular English : influence of contact with linguistics on ambivalent attitudes
… toward African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and the intensity of their contact with linguistics. Several studies have found negative attitudes toward this variety, including attitudes of teachers. Negative attitudes toward a variety can trigger lowered teacher expectations. According to …
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Y’all Call it Technical and Professional Communication, We Call it #ForTheCulture: The Use of Amplification Rhetorics in Black Communities and their Implications for Technical and Professional Communication Studies
… are payin' attention, I even tossed in some AAVE and shade; you may even catch a read or two. This project provides the reference guide for my AR framework and also a multimodal artifact that embodies AR theory put into practice.
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Smoke and Mirrors
<p> When a human trafficking ring comes to town, a grieving graduate student must choose between investigating on her own to save her sister or leaving the investigation to her impassive cop boyfriend.</p>
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Making youth matter: Exclusion and its impact on the school lives of African-American students
<p>This qualitative dissertation study explored how exclusion and marginalization in schools impact the lives of low-income African-American students. The study focused on the perspectives of youth attending both middle and high schools in Michigan, and investigated how students who have …
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An explanatory sequential mixed methods study : solving mathematics word problems among African American students.
This explanatory sequential mixed methods study, which consisted of QUAN → to qual investigated the impact of mathematics word problems among African American students in the seventh grade. This study applied a culturally relevant education (CRE) lens to examine how students solve mathematics word …