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Black Dialect and Learning to Read: What is the Problem?

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Masland, Susan W.


1979

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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Exploring Horizons

Excerpt:
"Responses to Black dialect have included rigorous efforts to eradicate it, to replace it with standard English, to deny its validity, even to attack it as the result of sloppy thinking and questionable intelligence. Under no circumstances, however, has Black dialect been ignored."

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