Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard1

Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 18-40

  Rickford, John R ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate   (United Kingdom)

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