Impact of dialect use on a basic component of learning to read

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Brown, Megan C ^a   Sibley, Daragh E ^b   Washington, Julie A ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b   Edwards, Jan R ^b   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^b   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement gap; African American English; Dialect; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926645851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00196     Document Type: Article

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