African American English-speaking students: An examination of the relationship between dialect shifting and reading outcomes

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 839-855

  Craig, Holly K ^a   Zhang, Lingling ^a   Hensel, Stephanie L ^a   Quinn, Erin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

African American English; Code switching; Dialect shifting; Literacy; Reading achievement

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; WRITING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 68149092007     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0056)     Document Type: Article

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