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African American English and the Achievement Gap: The Role of Dialectal Code Switching book cover

1st Edition

African American English and the Achievement Gap The Role of Dialectal Code Switching

By Holly Craig Copyright 2016
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom. Research has shown that students who can adapt and use SAE for academic purposes demonstrate significantly better test scores than their less adaptable peers. Accordingly, AAE use and its confirmed... Read more

Preface 1. The Educational Context: An Enduring Black-White Achievement Gap 2. Research Heuristics: Study Designs, Participants, Data Collection and Reduction 3. Child African American English 4. Systematic Influences on Rate of AAE Feature Production 5. Students Learning to Code-switch 6. The Educational Importance of Learning to Code-switch 7. Factors Influencing Individual Differences in Learning to Code-switch 8. Programs Designed to Teach SAE to AAE-speaking Students 9. A New Evidence-based Code-switching Program for Young AAE-speaking Students 10. Summary and Thoughts about Future Directions

Biography

Holly K. Craig is Professor Emerita and Research Professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan, USA.

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