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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Black English"”.

  1. Pedagogical implications of Black English

    Nelson, Melissa AdairTexas Woman's University1988

    … thesis is to examine teachers' attitudes about Black English and how those attitudes affect students and to determine whether teachers who have some training in Black English have different attitudes than those who have not. Chapter one explains the history of Black English and chapter two …

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  2. The Use of Figurative Devices in Aiding Comprehension for Speakers of Black English

    Taylor, Marsha AnneUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … to explain why the academic achievement of black children has not equaled the academic achievement of their white counterparts. By far the greatest attention in recent years has been devoted to explanations which are rooted in language behavior. The topic of "language behavior" encompasses a …

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  3. Rhetorical tropes from the black English oral tradition in the works of Toni Morrison

    Atkinson, Yvonne Kay

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  4. Rhetorical tropes from the black English oral tradition in the works of Toni Morrison

    Atkinson, Yvonne Kay

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  5. The Relationship Between The Oral Language of Black English Speakers and Their Reading Achievement

    Lass, BonnieUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709066.pdf: 3820534 bytes, checksum: f72ab0fac312a450ea58207756ecc08d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976

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  6. Meeting the challenges of black English second language South African learners in ex-model C primary schools

    University of Pretoria2012

    Black South African learners are registered in ex-Model C schools to receive their education. The language of learning and teaching is English, whilst these learners’ English language proficiency is limited. They come from different townships and rural areas, and their home languages are indigenous …

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  7. Language, Ideology, and Education: A Comparative Analysis of Bilingual Education Programs and the Question of Black English

    Reagan, Timothy GeraldUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … children (and, specifically, with speakers of Black English). The dissertation is divided into three interrelated sections: the first deals with the history of minority language groups in the United States (from the Colonial Era to the present), with an emphasis on the educational responses to …

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  8. A Comparison of Black First Graders' Listening Comprehension of a Peer-Prepared Story Told in Black English or Standard English

    Weaver, Arthur J., Jr.1970

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  9. Style and Meaning in African English: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of South African and Zimbabwean English

    Magura, Benjamin JameslaiUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … of the style and 'meaning' of the variety of English used in the sociocultural context of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The focus is primarily on the African or Black English variety.

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  10. Signifying in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' Use of African American English

    Reynolds, Diana Dial2010

    … Jacobs" narrative: the use of African American English (AAE) in representing the speech of a number of her characters. Nor has any scholar exclusively focused on the authenticity of her representation of AAE. This paper, a first step in such an effort, demonstrates that Jacobs' use conforms to …

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  11. A cross-sectional study of behavioural style and associated work- related stress in the South African context

    Pugsley, Beryl Ruth.2002

    … in the South African genders and the Afrikaans, Black, English and Indian population groups is investigated. Data were collected from three organisations that process the Style Analysis questionnaires, and analysed to ascertain significant differences between the various groups, and correlations …

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  12. Self-Concept Assessment of Linguistically Diverse Students

    Rauscher-Bethlendy, Rebecca1993

    … than those students who are from "standard" English linguistic backgrounds. This study took into account the students' linguistic backgrounds; the language most frequently used in the home, whether it is "standard" English, Black English, Spanish, or any other language. It was the premise of …

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  13. Code-Switching and Sentence Imitation by African-American Students

    Richardson, Aaron1995

    1 PDF file (106 pages)

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  14. African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies

    Jill Hallett (10633307)2025

    Discrepancies between 'home English' and 'school English' for urban students have been addressed for decades by a number of scholars in the fields of linguistics, education, and sociology (Baratz 1969, Baugh 1995, Charity et al 2004, Alim 2009, Edwards 2010). Those students who speak prestige …

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  15. Present tense marking as a synopsis of Southern American English: Plural verbal -s and zero 3rd singular.

    Aguilar, Amanda G.University of North Texas2005

    … is guilty") in data from two sources on Southern English: The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) and The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). The research questions that underlie this study consider (1) the demographic association of plural verbal -s and zero …

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